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Curriculum Associates: Comparing and Contrasting Texts [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
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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University of North Carolina

Unc: Writing Center: Comparing and Contrasting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Read Works

Read Works: Fourth Grade: Three Lesson Unit: Compare and Contrast

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson plan 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,...
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Compare and Contrast

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[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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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Nonfiction: Comparison/contrast Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on how to write a nonfiction comparison/contrast paper including the reasons for writing them and the three organizational strategies. It features links to transition words, graphic organizers, Venn diagrams,...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Comparing and Contrasting Texts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on writing a comparison and contrast paper for both literary texts and informational texts. It offers a YouTube video about writing a synthesis paper using either a point by point or a source by source arrangement....
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Square Compare and Contrast Diagram [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
A graphic organizer where students compare and contrast items by writing similarities and differences in overlapping squares, similar to the circles on a Venn Diagram.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: "I Used to Be, but Now I" Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
After reading/listening to the picture book When I Was Five by Arthur Howard, students 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 state and...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Spiritual Waters

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
After analyzing primary source documents, pictures, and artifacts, students will use the describe, analyze, and interpret method to compare and contrast a sketch of Tahoe City in 1865 to a photograph of modern day Tahoe City. Then...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Lit and Comp: Poetry: Comparison/contrast Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on writing an effective comparison and contrast essay. It explains and provides examples of the two methods of comparisons: point-by-point and item-by-item. It provides links to a comparison/contrast tutorial,...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Compare and Contrast Rubric

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students and teachers can assess their own writing with this compare and contrast rubric.
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Lcc: Comparison and Contrast: Culture Capsules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides links to eight comparison and contrast essays written by English as a Second Language (ESL) students. Each essay involves comparing and contrasting two different cultures or specific aspects in those cultures.
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Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Compare and Contrast

For Students 9th - 10th
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "compare and contrast" mold, including the Venn diagram, T-chart, and the compare/contrast matrix.
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Pbs Learning Media: Adapting Dickens: From Page to Screen

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students focus on the opening scene of the Great Expectations film to examine the process of adapting the novel by Charles Dickens for the screen. Students compare and contrast the film and the original text to consider the strengths of...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Comparison/contrast Feet [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
A graphic organizer where students write similarities on one foot and differences on the other.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Compare and Contrast Papers: Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses structuring an outline for a comparison contrast paper.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: Compare/contrast Essay [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This PDF lesson focuses on writing a comparison/contrast essay, which is a great format for helping students think deeply about two ideas or concepts with multiple similarities and differences. This type of essay has four-parts -1) an...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Now & Then

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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

Writing Fix: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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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C.a.s.t.l.e. Technology: Student Page: Compare and Contrast

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan requiring students to work in groups to create a modern version of a popular nursery rhyme and then compare and contrast the original version with the one they have created.
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Drew University: Resources for Writers Comparison Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Sections of this site include key features of the comparison essay, comparisons in daily life, formulating a thesis, preparing to write, and organizing a comparison essay. The site also includes a paragraph of caution when writing about...
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Comparison and Contrast

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides examples of paragraphs that are arranged by the comparison and contrast organizational structure.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: A Poem for Two Voices [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This is a PDF lesson. After reading/listening to selections of "poems for two voices" from the book Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman and after students compare and contrast two items, they compose a poem for two voices in the "voice" of...
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Kim's Korner: Six Trait Analytic Writing Model

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Check out this comprehensive website featuring ideas for teaching writing based on the six trait analytic writing model.

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