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TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 8
Lights, camera, action! Math educators consider how to improve their instruction by examining a model of the five-practice problem-solving model involving a movie theater. Participants examine cognitive demand in relation to problem...
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Curriculum Associates: Comparing and Contrasting Texts [Pdf]
In these activities, students are asked to compare and contrast two versions of each event with two pieces of writing that are about the same topic. Teaching notes with answer keys are provided as well.
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Read Works: 3rd Grade: Using Compare and Contrast Keywords: Lesson 1
[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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Sadlier School: Comparing and Contrasting Firsthand & Secondhand Texts
This unit uses first- and second-hand accounts to explore the life of Ruby Bridges and revolves around the book "Through My Eyes" by Ruby Bridges. This detailed lesson includes a full literacy unit, tips for small group and independent...
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Penn. Department of Education:comparing and Contrasting Different Versions
Comparing and contrasting is a higher-level thinking skill promoted in the Common Core Standards leading to the ability to comprehend and analyze texts through various topics and genres. This lesson plan on Comparing and Contrasting...
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Cpalms: Five Little Monkeys: Comparing and Contrasting
[Free Registration/Login Required] Five little monkeys sitting on a bed or sitting in a tree? In this close reading lesson, students will compare and contrast the actions of the characters in two of Eileen Christelow's beloved books,...
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Better Lesson: Comparing & Contrasting Inventors
What do inventors have that are alike? How are they different? Why do they invent? Learning about them may inspire you to invent new technology! In this instructional activity, students will compare and contrast key details in two texts...
University of North Carolina
Unc: Writing Center: Comparing and Contrasting
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Compare and Contrast Similar Themes Across Time Periods
In this lesson, you'll learn how to compare and contrast similar themes across time periods and types of works.
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Better Lesson: Comparing and Contrasting With "Then and Now"
This lesson is a great small group reading lesson that has a social studies connection. In this lesson, learners will be comparing and contrasting schools from long ago and schools of today using informational texts. Included are...
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E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Compare and Contrast
This learning module provides an explanation of the compare and contrast text structure. An explanation of the compare and contrast text structure is provided, and the compare and contrast text structure is demonstrated in a video...
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Essay Transition Words: Compare and Contrast Transition Words
This reference page focuses on compare and contrast transition words including defining transitions and compare and contrast transitions, providing a list of transition words, and showing how to use transitions in writing essays.
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Read Works: Lesson 3: Comparing and Contrasting Two Characters From a Book
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on comparing and contrasting through which students learn how to compare and contrast two items, themselves with a character, and two characters within a text. Lessons use the books...
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Sophia: Comparing and Contrasting Texts
Two PowerPoint presentations and a video [2:57] on comparing and contrasting literary and informational texts as well as how to write a literary analysis. Includes links to external resources.
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Read Works: Compare and Contrast 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson plan unit on comparing and contrasting through which students learn how to compare two items using key terms, compare and contrast two non-fiction texts on similar topics, and compare and...
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Read Works: Fourth Grade: Three Lesson Unit: Compare and Contrast
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on comparing and contrasting through which students compare and contrast two non-fiction articles and two editorials, and write a compare and contrast essay. With free login, users...
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Better Lesson: Day 3 Comparing and Contrasting
Students will analyze and compare and contrast the messages shared by two highly influential women in regard to women's rights and what it is to be a woman, particularly one of color, in America. The texts that will be compared are "Aint...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Compare and Contrast
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify similarities and differences to compare and contrast objects and stories. Lessons are based on the provided text "My Brother and I"...
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Read Write Think: Comparing and Contrasting: Picturing an Organizational Pattern
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...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: Compare and Contrast Events
Compare and contrast are skills students need to have to comprehend a text. Learn how to compare and contrast events on this site.
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Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: Compare and Contrast Settings
To comprehend a story, students need to be able to compare and contrast the setting. Learn how to compare and contrast setting in this reference article.
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Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: Compare and Contrast Characters
Learn how to compare and contrast characters on this site. Understand how comparing and contrasting characters is important for reading comprehension.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare and Contrast [Pdf]
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing and contrasting fiction or nonfiction characteristics.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Compare and Contrast [Pdf]
This resource is a poster that includes cues that will help students compare and contrast information. These questions can be applied to fiction and nonfiction passages.
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