Spotlight on Strategies
Compare and Contrast
Why Compare and Contrast?
Standards Being Addressed
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.7
Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.8
Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.9
Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
Example
To introduce comparing and contrasting I will model how to compare and contrast using an anchor chart and two sources. I will do a think aloud to model how I think about comparing and contrasting on a graphic organizer. I will use my Canvas Solar System research module. I can use the different sources to see which sources will work best for me. I will research and choose the best facts to compare the Earth and Pluto. I will take notes on my organizer. I can write that on my graphic organizer in the section about both Earth and Pluto. Then if I need to know what it means to contrast, I know I can look back at my anchor chart and see that contrast means different. Well, I see that Earth and Pluto are two different sizes. If I write that on my graphic organizer I will put small on the Pluto side and large on the Earth side. I can see the different distances from the sun. Earth is closer and Pluto is very far away. I can write about the different distances on the Earth side and the Pluto side. Now, before I am finished I want to make sure that I have met my goal.
Canvas
Note Taking Skills
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Challenge
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Let's Give Credit
S. (2014). Introduction to Reading Skills: Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Texts. Retrieved April 10, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pRlaKq3L5I
Silver, H. (n.d.). Compare and Contrast. Retrieved April 10, 2016, from http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/110126/chapters/Section-1@-Why-Compare-$-Contrast¢.aspx
Presentations:
Newman, Lindsey. (March 30, 2016). Planets: Compare and Contrast. https://s.nearpod.com/j/AD07F2AA6E660F7F86449EEAF7306CDB-1
Pictures:
Mailonline, G. V. (2015). Did our solar system once contain DOZENS of Earth-like planets? Simulations suggest these rocky worlds may have been kicked out by the gas giants billions of years ago. Retrieved April 10, 2016, from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3306656/Did-solar-contain-DOZENS-Earth-like-planets-Simulations-suggest-rocky-worlds-kicked-gas-giants-billions-years-ago.html