Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Ccs: Time, Sequence, and Cause/effect
An automated lesson will engage student's learning how to describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text. An introduction to the concept precedes a...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: rl.k.9
Written by Master Teachers, BetterLesson provides lesson plans for all core subjects. This site provides 15 lessons for RL.K.9: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar...
Read Works
Read Works: The Harmonica
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about the harmonica. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
Education.com
Education.com: ri.k.9 Lesson Plans
[Free Registration/Login Required] These lesson plans can help students practice identifying basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic.
Read Works
Read Works: Paired Text Questions: "We Are Americans" and "Whoever You Are"
Students will compare information from the non-fiction book "We are Americans" and the book "Whoever You Are" to write or speak more knowledgeably about what large groups of people have in common.
Education.com
Education.com: sl.k.5 Lesson Plans
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from four quality lesson plans to help students practice the Common Core Standard of adding drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: But, Are They Really That Different?
Students cannot compare and contrast adventures and experiences in stories or explain differences between books without first understanding how to compare. For this lesson, students will learn how to use a Venn Diagram to compare two...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Compare and Contrast [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students use graphic organizers to compare and contrast topics within a text. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Fiction and Nonfiction Sort [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which young scholars look at different books, write their titles, and sort them according to whether they are fiction or nonfiction. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Venn Diagram [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which young scholars read two literary texts then compare and contrast them by completing a Venn diagram. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Story [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read two narrative texts and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast the texts. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Character Compare [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which learners read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to compare two characters. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Narr. Text Structure: Picture the Character
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to illustrate and write characteristics of one of the characters. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Character [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast two characters from the story. Materials are included.[PDF]
Big Learners
Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.2.1.f : Second Grade English Language Arts
Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.2.1.F. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are...
TES Global
Blendspace: Compare Two Texts
This lesson will allow learners to identify similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic. Includes a video on comparing and contrasting, printable charts, activities, and an assessment question.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Points of Informational Text Main Idea and Details
This lesson plan uses the book Explorers of North America - A True Book by Brendan January to teach students how to identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph informational text and specific paragraphs within the text. Students are...
Axelson Academy
Axelson Academy:types of Texts
This professional resource will help teachers understand the different types of texts that early childhood students need to know.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Comparing Two Cinderella Stories
Students will compare two characters and list their comparisons on a graphic organizer using modern Cinderella stories. This lesson includes a detailed lesson plan for guided practice and partner work, and a video of students engaged in...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Comparing and Contrasting Two Stories Using a Double Bubble Map
In this lesson, 1st graders will look at two texts with the "The Three Little Pigs" story. Students will compare the approach that each of the authors takes.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Speaking, Listening, and Writing Comparing Sentences
In this lesson, 1st graders will look at the structure of both stories to determine how our two stories are the same.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Lafs.7.ri.1.3
This site provides explanation of the Florida English Language Arts Standard: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Rocky Rescue Lesson Plan: Molly of Denali
This lesson, based on the animated story "Rocky Rescue" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children notice compare and contrast text structure while listening to and reading informational texts. In the video, Molly uses a...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dancing Differences [Pdf]
This activity will allow students to explore comparing and contrasting through movement and choreographic sequences.