Compare and Contrast

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Compare and Contrast

• Instructional Focus Area For Weeks 19-21

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Compare and Contrast

• The Benchmark
• The student recognizes the use of comparison and
  contrast in a text. LA.A.2.2.7

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Important Vocabulary and Definitions

• Compare Finding how two or more things are
  alike. Clue words that tell how things are alike
  same, like, both, alike, still, likewise, in the
  same ways, in comparisons, at the same time, in
  the same manner, and similar.

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• Contrast Finding how things are
  different. Clue words that tell how things are
  different but, unlike, different, however, on
  the other hand, but, yet, nevertheless,
  conversely, rather, on the contrary, nonetheless,
  and whereas.
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• People, places, objects, and events can all
  be compared and contrasted.
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• Comparing and contrasting text is one of the
  most challenging critical reading skills to
  acquire because it requires evaluating and
  synthesizing.
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Graphic Organizers

• Venn Diagram
• Three column notes
• Character mapping
• Semantic Feature Analysis

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Application of Strategy

• Compare and contrast two events, characters,
  settings, or ideas in a selection
• Identify compare and contrast statements and clue
  words in a given text
• Write similes, metaphors, and analogies that
  compare and contrast two or more things
• Demonstrate the results of compare and contrast
  in a graphic organizer
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Critical Thinking Questions

• How did the author help readers learn new ideas
  by comparing and contrasting?
• What text-to-text, text-to-world, or text-to-self
  connections can you make?
• What similes, metaphors, or analogies did the
  author use to make comparisons?
• What ideas did the author compare and contrast?

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A Critical Thinking Skill, the Rationale

• Comparing and contrasting text is a critical
  thinking skill. Mastering the skill leads
  students toward proficiency in reading, writing,
  analyzing problems and making decisions.

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Teaching Strategies

• Using one of the books from the Literature
  Suggestions, plan and present a Think-Aloud,
  modeling how to apply the skills for comparing
  and contrasting.
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• Teach the vocabulary that signals the compare
  and contrast by identifying these words in text.
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• Teach and model the use of graphic organizers
  while reading and writing.
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Venn Diagram

• What is it? A Venn diagram is an graphic
  organizer that allows students to create a visual
  map that contains two overlapping circles
  enabling them to organize their thinking as they
  compare and contrast information in text.
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Thinking Maps

• Thinking maps integrate thinking skills and
  mapping techniques. Learning to use these
  strategies helps students develop good writing
  skills. These techniques also help students
  become better learners as they develop life-long
  skills that help them to study.

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Double Bubble Thinking Maps

• When comparing and contrasting we use double
  bubble maps. This is similar in concept to a
  Venn diagram. Two items being compared are
  written in the two center circles. Outside
  bubbles display items that share qualities with
  only one object-these are contrasting qualities.
  Center bubbles that connect to both circles show
  similarities between the two items being
  compared.
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• http//www.thinkingmaps.com/httmexam.php3

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Double Bubble Map
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Special Points of Interest

• FACT
• 3rd grade 40 of the FCAT questions use
  expository text
• 4th 5th grade 50 of the FCAT questions
  use expository text
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• Key Questions
• How are ___ and ___ alike?
• How are you like ___ (person)?
• How is your family like ___s (persons) family?
• What did ___ and ___ (person or animal) do that
  is alike? ( can compare 3)
• Think about ___ and ___ (people) in the
  story. How are they alike?
• How are they different? 

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Literature Suggestions

• Borreguita and the Coyote
• Solomon and the Rusty Nail
• The Girl who Loved Horses
• Lon Po Po
• Song and Dance Man
• Deep in the Forest
• Fish Is Fish
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Extension Activities FCRR Just Read Florida
Activity Binder

• Character Characteristics
• Students describe a character by using a graphic
  organizer. Grade 2-3 (C.001)
• Compare-A-Character
• Students will identify similarities and
  differences
• between characters.
• Grade 2-3(C.002)
• Word Analysis
• Students will identify similarities and
  differences between the meaning of words
• Grade K-1(V.029)
• Semantic Feature Analysis
• Students will identify similarities and
  differences between the meaning of words.
• Grade K-1 (V.032)
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