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Roberto Clemente
Have your class explore the life of Roberto Clemente using this instructional activity. After reading the story Roberto Clemente by Jonah Winter, learners answer cause and effect questions, classify ideas, make comparisons, and write a...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Discuss the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This story, called "Franklin D. Roosevelt" by Laura Hamilton Waxman, is used to explore comprehension skills. Some of these skills include identifying prefixes and suffixes, making comparisons,...
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Who's Got Game? The Lion or the Mouse?
Discuss bullying, folk tales, and more using this resource. Learners read the story The Lion and the Mouse by Toni and Slade Morrison, engage in cause and effect activities, make predictions, and discuss bullying. This is a motivating...
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Introduce: Comparison and Contrast
Class discussions can really make concepts come to life. The class discusses the differences between compare and contrast, read a book, then talk about ways they can compare events or characters in the story. Good leading question are...
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Making Comparisons
In this making comparisons activity, students expand 8 prompts as they write complete sentences that make comparisons. Students also use comparative and superlative adjectives to compare the places the describe.
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Vocabulary Worksheets Basic English 3rd Edition Chapter 16: Making Comparisons
In this making comparisons worksheet, learners match well known sayings to 8 explanation sentences. This is a matching worksheet.
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Compare and Contrast Cultures
Using informational text to make cross cultural comparisons is a great way to build a global understanding and comparative analysis skills. With several handy worksheets and a Venn diagram the class will read to make cross textual...
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Making Comparisons
In this language arts worksheet, students investigate making comparisons by working with a classmate on this oral language activity. Students pick a card that has 2 items on it, such as "emails, letters." Students make comparative...
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Comparisons
Fifth graders complete a worksheet. In this comparison lesson plan, 5th graders view sentences and identify the comparatives in them. Students complete a worksheet on comparisons.
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Quiz: Comparisons
In this making comparison worksheet, students write 16 sentences comparing the items pictured and using the clues words that are provided.
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Comparison Sentences
In this comparison practice worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 15 sentences that require them to make comparisons.
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Literary Comparison
Compare and contrast two pieces of literature with this lesson. With the use of a Venn diagram, pupils make connections between literature and real-life situations. They practice skills of surveying a text looking for important details,...
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Anansi Goes to Lunch - Pre-Kindergarten
In a multidisciplinary lesson plan, you will focus your instruction around the West African folktale, Anansi Goes to Lunch by Bobby and Sherry Norfolk while your little learners sing songs, play games, participate in a grand...
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Lesson: Taking Risks & Making Comparisons
Kids are asked how an Indian mandala was made. They devise a hypothesis and then use colored sand to test if their guesses were correct. They document the experience, examine a mandala, and write a comparative piece about the differences...
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Worksheet 11 Vocabulary Review: Making Comparisons
In this completing sentences activity, learners read ten sentences with a missing word. From four choices, students check all possible completions.
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Lesson: A Garden Party of My Own
Kids look at a beautiful work of art to practice grammar, make connections from life to art, and sketching. They identify all the parts of grammar they see in the image, discuss what they see and do on a picnic, and then draw an imaged...
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Comparisons And You
Pupils examine the structure and language of sentences that are used for making comparisons. They drill through a series of sentences for a model and practice. Then students write sentences that make comparisons after brainstorming the...
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Comparisons
In this comparisons worksheet, students look at the 2 pictures and the words in parentheses. Students write sentences using "er" or "more" to make comparisons. There are 5 questions.
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Synonyms - How Authors Make Comparisons
A very good 13-slide presentation on similes and metaphors is here for you. It introduces young poets to each term, gives examples, and prompts them to work together to identify similes and metaphors in several different sentences.
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Character Connections
Making connections with characters in literature is a great way to engage young children in reading. This task is made much easier with this Venn diagram template that asks young learners to compare and contrast themselves with a...
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Close Reading: Paragraph 4 of “Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Comparison”
Why is reading a text closely a helpful skill? Using the 13th of 20 lessons from the Grade 8 ELA Module 1, Unit 2 series, scholars continue reading the informational text "Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Comparison." They work with...
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Read Aloud- Literary Elements- Prediction
First graders read two stories. In this literary elements lesson, 1st graders read The Hat by Jan Brett, notice patterns of prediction, identify the setting, problem and solution and compare the story to the book The Mitten.
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Making Comparisons- School-Home Links
In this grammar worksheet, 2nd graders and parents read about making comparisons between unlike things and the use of similes. They underline the two things that are being compared in 4 sentences. There is a place for both the student...
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Select the Correct Comparisons
In this making comparisons worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions where they are asked to select the correct comparison to finish the sentences.