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Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: "I Used to Be, but Now I" Poetry
After reading/listening to the picture book When I Was Five by Arthur Howard, young scholars 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...
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Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: Comparing Community Helpers
After reading the picture book Come on, Rain by Karen Hesse, which discusses how the weather both helps and harms the community, students bring tools from home to represent what their parents do for a living. They will present these...
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Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: Can We Help Save the Earth?
The children will compare two texts: The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton and Farewell to Shady Glade by Bill Peet, about an old house and an animal's home respectively, using a Venn Diagram. They should be guided to address the...
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Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: You Can't Ask for That! Poetry
After listening to the song "Love Song" by Sarah Bareilles and the poem "Valentine for Ernest Mann" by Naomi Shihab, Nye, student will compare and contrast the ideas in them. Sara Bareilles didn't think you can ask for a love song...
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Writing Fix: Voice Building Poetry Lesson: Comparison & Contrast Poems
In this lesson plan, students examine multiple mentor texts to help drive them toward the final persuasive writing assignment: comparison and contrast poems written from a parent and a child's perspective. A short story, two poems, and a...
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Writing Fix: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Poems
In this lesson students listen to three modern songs that capture the symbolism in words--"Yesterday" by the Beatles, "Today" by the Smashing Pumpkins, and "Tomorrow" from the Annie Soundtrack. They will analyze their own experiences...
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Writing Fix: c.s.i.: The Cory Crime Scene
The character talked about in E. A. Robinson's poem, Richard Cory, is about a man with everything, a man that everyone wants to be like, a man who ends his own life without explanation. Singers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, intrigued by...
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Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: What Skin Are You In?
Using two songs by India Arie as well as an excerpt out of Sharon Flake's The Skin I'm In, students will explore their own self image. After analyzing the qualities that each student feels that they embody, they will compare these to the...
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Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Poetry Lesson: Poems vs Lyrics
After listening and analyzing song lyrics and, subsequently, doing the same analysis with poems, students will discover how similar song writing and poetry writing can be. Students will get their own chance to write a small version of...
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Writing Fix: Differentiated Narrative Lesson: Two Safe Frame Choices
This instructional activity is based on two narrative picture books that can be compared and contrasted: When I was Five by Arthur Howard and Jamie Lee Curtis' When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of her Youth. Students will need...
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Writing Fix: Now & Then
Inspired by Gene Barretta's Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin this fantastic cross-curricular activity has students comparing or contrasting a particular topic of history with how things are in this day and age.
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Writing Fix: Compare & Contrast as an Idea Springboard
In this Writers Workshop instructional activity, young scholars read Frog and Toad stories by Arnold Lobel to learn about writing that compares and contrasts to things. This format can be used to write about many different topics in...
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Writing Den: Paragraphs
How do you write a paragraph? Use this site to learn more about the different parts of a paragraph.
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: New Leadership [Pdf]
"New Leadership" is Harold Washington's Acceptance Speech as Mayor of Chicago on April 12, 1983. It is followed by an assignment which requires students to provide evidence from the text; it includes comparing Washington's election as...
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Emancipation Proclamations
Students will review, compare and contrast the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 with the District of Columbia Emancipation Act.
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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...