Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer Activity

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How to teach Compare and Contrast

Using this Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer Activity, students organize their ideas using any of the provided graphic organizers in order to compare and contrast the structure of events, ideas, concepts, and information in two or more texts.

Being able to compare text structures between two texts is an important skill for your students be able to do. This graphic organizer activity will help organize their ideas.

Students can fill in these graphic organizers with examples of similarities and differences about the chronology of events, story details, cause and effect, and problem and solution.

Other resources to use with this Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer Activity

If you are using these graphic organizers, your students are probably learning about comparing and contrasting.

Use this Compare and Contrast Worksheet as an additional resource for your students.

Introduce this Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer Activity by comparing either two books you have recently read or members of your class. Next, show students how they can record their ideas in a graphic organizer. Then, have students complete the activity independently or with a partner. Finally, challenge your students to choose a graphic organizer to fill out while reading. You could also partner up students and have them read two different texts, fill out one part of the graphic organizer individually, and then come back together to compare and contrast their two texts.

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