Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: "Compare/contrast Essay Help Sheet" [Pdf]

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
This is the 2-page PDF "Compare/Contrast Essay Help Sheet" which features an explanation of the three methods of comparison and contrast and a list of transition words that compare/contrast.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Nonfiction: Comparison/contrast Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on how to write a nonfiction comparison/contrast paper including the reasons for writing them and the three organizational strategies. It features links to transition words, graphic organizers, Venn diagrams,...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Comparison and Contrast Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over comparison and contrast transition words.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Comparison and Contrast Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over comparison and contrast transition words.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Comparing and Contrasting Texts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on writing a comparison and contrast paper for both literary texts and informational texts. It offers a YouTube video about writing a synthesis paper using either a point by point or a source by source arrangement....
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Comparing and Contrasting: Picturing an Organizational Pattern

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for two 50-minute lessons that teach about the comparison/contrast organizational pattern. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the lessons as...
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: 3rd Grade: Using Compare and Contrast Keywords: Lesson 1

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] With this lesson plan, teachers can help students increase their understanding of what they read through the use of key words that compare and contrast.
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University of North Carolina

Unc: Writing Center: Comparing and Contrasting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This handout will help to determine whether a particular assignment is asking for comparison/contrast and then to generate a list of similarities and differences, decide which similarities and differences to focus on, and organize your...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Teaching the Compare and Contrast Essay Through Modeling

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that teach students how to write comparison contrast essays after modeling the form to them. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Compare and Contrast Example 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This three-page essay provides an example of an comparison/contrast essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Examining Plot Conflict Through a Comparison/contrast Essay

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for six lessons that ask students to examine types of conflict (character vs. character, character vs. self, character vs. nature, and character vs. society) before writing essays that compare and contrast two conflicts....
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Other

Wisewire: Grade 7 Playlist: Historical and Literary Comparisons

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners will learn how to compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history. Included are lesson...
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Other

Drew University: Resources for Writers Comparison Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Sections of this site include key features of the comparison essay, comparisons in daily life, formulating a thesis, preparing to write, and organizing a comparison essay. The site also includes a paragraph of caution when writing about...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Compare and Contrast Papers: Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses structuring an outline for a comparison contrast paper.
Handout
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Compare and Contrast Papers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces comparison/contrast papers.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: Compare/contrast Essay [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This PDF lesson focuses on writing a comparison/contrast essay, which is a great format for helping students think deeply about two ideas or concepts with multiple similarities and differences. This type of essay has four-parts -1) an...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: "I Used to Be, but Now I" Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
After reading/listening to the picture book When I Was Five by Arthur Howard, students will compare themselves today to a time in their life when they were younger. After determining exactly how old you will be in your younger state and...
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Other

Santa Monica College: Compare or Contrast?

For Students 9th - 10th
Need a little help with choosing whether you are comparing or contrasting two objects? Here you'll find definitions and an interactive "quiz" which will let you try out your skills in choosing the correct word.
Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Compare and Contrast Example 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This three-page essay provides an example of an comparison/contrast essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Compare and Contrast Example 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This three-page essay provides an example of an comparison/contrast essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Alike? Different? Compare and Contrast

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains numerous interactive activities. The flipchart introduces students to the concept of comparison and contrast, how it relates to real life, how it is used by authors, and signal...
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PBS

Pbs: Frontline: Conduct an Historical Comparison

For Students 9th - 10th
A current program encouraging the advancement of literacy in developing countries is compared and contrasted with philanthropic establishment of libraries throughout the world donated by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Parallel Structure in Pairs

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson discusses the importance of parallel construction in pairs and comparisons or contrasts. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: English Bus: Measurement & Comparison

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Visit London and figure out things like bigger, smaller, empty, half full, and full.

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