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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...
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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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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Comparison and Contrast Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the comparison and contrast essays; it defines new terms: compare/contrast essay, yin/yang Venn diagram, block comparison, and point by point comparison. It also provides a slideshow which defines and discusses the...
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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...
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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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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: A Poem for Two Voices [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This is a PDF lesson. After reading/listening to selections of "poems for two voices" from the book Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman and after students compare and contrast two items, they compose a poem for two voices in the "voice" of...
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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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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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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.
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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.
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Compare and Contrast Papers: Organization

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

Sophia: Comparison Papers: Key Elements

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over words, phrases, and key elements that are included in comparison contrast papers.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Comparison Papers: Thesis: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses selecting a thesis for a comparison contrast paper. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Comparison Papers: Thesis."
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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.
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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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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: The Sketch N Write [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This is a PDF instructional activity. After studying vocabulary words or concepts that have similarities and differences, young scholars create a two-sided Sketch-n-Write for two or more words (or concepts). On the right-hand side of the...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Story Writing With Arthur

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This series of 12 downloadable activities teach students some basics of story writing, using books or videos from the PBS "Arthur" series as a springboard. Activities include creating story maps, asking questions about characters and...
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Cengage Learning

Themes, Perspectives and Issues/edwin Arlington Robinson

For Students 9th - 10th
In depth site including comparisons, contrasts, form, style and artistic conventions. Great research site!
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Comparison and Contrast

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides examples of paragraphs that are arranged by the comparison and contrast organizational structure.
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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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces comparison/contrast papers.
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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.
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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.
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Other

Lcc: Comparison and Contrast: Culture Capsules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides links to eight comparison and contrast essays written by English as a Second Language (ESL) students. Each essay involves comparing and contrasting two different cultures or specific aspects in those cultures.

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