State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: James K. Polk
A summary of James Polk's life including comparisons and contrasts with Andrew Jackson.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Comparing Plants and Animals
A tutorial that compares and constrast plants and animals. Explore how living things their obtain basic needs, protect, support, and reproduce. A PDF file of the tutorial is available.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) (B. 1934)
A Georgetown professor's perspective on teaching Momaday's work, focusing on "Rainy Mountain." Offers insights on form/style/artistic conventions, and major themes/personal issues/historical perspectives.
![Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Grade 10: Comparing Play and Film [Pdf] Activity](http://content.lessonplanet.com/resources/thumbnails/409992/large/bwluav9tywdpy2symdiwmduymc0xnje5ny0xnhmwd2vrlmpwzw.jpg?1589982923 "Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Grade 10: Comparing Play and Film [Pdf] Activity")
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Grade 10: Comparing Play and Film [Pdf]
An excellent student model for tenth-graders of the comparison between a play and a film, this one for "A Streetcar Named Desire." Provides good writing style and structure, and also includes notations and helpful student aids for...
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Venn Diagrams With the Pain and the Great One
Come and check out this awesome lesson plan featuring Judy Blume's book, "The Pain and the Great One." Students will have an opportunity to learn about comparing and contrasting through this Venn diagram lesson plan.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Is Romance Dead?
As an introduction to the medieval romances, students compare and contrast the medieval rules of courtly love to the modern "rules" of courtship and romance. Students write a compare/contrast essay after group work and class discussion.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Earth and Moon
Students are asked to compare and contrast the earth and the moon.
Indiana University
Indiana University East: Writing Center: Transitions: Understanding Signal Words
This resource page provides nine lists of signal words and what they mean. Covers words that show time, addition, contrast, comparison, illustration, location, cause and effect, conclusion or summary, and emphasis or clarification.
Other
Kim's Korner: Patterns of Organization
This resource from Kim's Korner for Teacher Talk defines various patterns of text organization and provides a brief essay example of each pattern.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Punctuation Context Clues
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review how to use punctuation context clues to assist with reading comprehension. The following types of punctuation context clues are included in the lesson: definitions, synonyms, comparisons,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Venn Diagram Rubric
A printable three-leveled rubric for evaluating a Venn diagram in the areas of test support of comparisons, placement of statements, and number of quality statements. Directions on how to use this rubric as well as lists of teaching...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Context Clues Intro
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses context clues and how they are used to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. There is sufficient material for several lessons on this topic. Included are activities and...
Read Works
Read Works: Snowflake Bentley
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this ReadWorks read aloud lesson, students will describe Bentley's environment and his interactions with it. Students will evaluate the impact a person's environment can have on life. Then students...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Transitions Between Ideas
This tutorial teaches writing students how to share convincing in well-written sentences that are connected from one to the other--that is, they exhibit transition. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/trans
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Developing Vocabulary Context Clues
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive whiteboard lesson is designed to help students develop their vocabulary by recognizing and analyzing context clues with unfamiliar words.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Whose Piece Is Larger?
Fourth graders are always concerned about whether they get their equal piece when things are divided. In this lesson, 4th graders will use fraction bars to visually see how to compare fractions
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Common Sense,independence
Discussion of comparison and contrast of Declaration of Independence and Common Sense. If you click the "documents" link in the sidebar, you can also access the text of Common Sense.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Introducing the Venn Diagram in the Kindergarten Classroom
Contains plans for short lessons that introduce the use of Venn Diagrams to kindergarten students. Uses interactive Venn Diagram exercises to make the concept easy to understand. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Test 9: Ben's Harmonica
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a reading assessment passage. This passage contains a brief biography about Ben Franklin and a few of his inventions.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Point of View
In this lesson, students compare/contrast two versions of "The Three Little Pigs" including the traditional from the pigs' point of view and "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith version as told from...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: 3 Voice Storyboard: Feeling [Pdf]
In this PDF lesson, students study topics on which people might have differing feelings; they then create three dialogue bubbles that represent three different viewpoints: one that loves the topic, one that dislikes it, and one with a...
University of Virginia Library
Prism: "What Mitosis Has to Do With Families" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have ReadWorks' "What Mitosis Has to Do with Families." Text details related to descriptions are blue, definitions/examples are red, and comparisons/contrasts are green....
Harvey Mudd College
Claremont Colleges: Writing an Argument
Brief handout describing different forms of argument for writing.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Venn Diagrams
The point of this lesson is to introduce children to the idea of comparison through Venn diagrams. Children will compare two stories using the Venn diagram.
Other popular searches
- Comparison Contrast Paragraph
- Comparison/contrast Essay
- Comparison/contrast Charts
- Comparison Contrast Rubric
- Contrast Comparison Essay
- Comparison Contrast Essays
- Comparison Contrast Writing
- Comparison Contrast Activity
- Reading Comparison Contrast
- Comparison and Contrast Essay
- Comparison/contrast 2 Songs
- Comparison Contrast Paragraphs