Compare It Compare and Contrast Activity
Using this Compare It Compare and Contrast Activity, students organize their ideas to compare the overall structure, ideas, concepts and information using the two provided texts.
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How to teach Compare and Contrast
Using this Compare It Compare and Contrast Activity, students organize their ideas to compare the overall structure, ideas, concepts and information using the two provided 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 this graphic organizer with examples of similarities and differences about the structure of events, information, and author’s purpose between the two texts.
Other resources to use with this Compare It Compare and Contrast Activity
If you are using this activity, your students are probably learning about comparing and contrasting.
Use this Compare and Contrast Worksheet as an additional resource for your students.
Introduce this activity by comparing two books you have recently read. Next, show students how they can record their ideas in a graphic organizer. Then, have students read the two texts, “A Chat with Dog Trainer Gail Mirabella” (article from Time for Kids Magazine) and Housebreaking Herschel by Andrew Frinkle. Once they have read both texts, they complete the activity independently or with a partner. Finally, challenge your students to use the graphic organizer to fill out while reading another text.
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