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Compare and Contrast

This document provides information on the compare and contrast strategy for teaching students. It explains that the strategy requires students to go beyond simply listing similarities and differences by categorizing them, assessing their significance, looking for patterns, and drawing conclusions. It notes that using a compare and contrast graphic organizer can help students organize their thoughts on comparing two events, people, policies, or ideas. It provides sample questions to guide students through the open compare and contrast process and outlines the procedures for using the strategy, which involves identifying topics, brainstorming similarities and differences, sorting them into categories, and drawing a conclusion about the relationship between the topics.

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Compare and Contrast

This document provides information on the compare and contrast strategy for teaching students. It explains that the strategy requires students to go beyond simply listing similarities and differences by categorizing them, assessing their significance, looking for patterns, and drawing conclusions. It notes that using a compare and contrast graphic organizer can help students organize their thoughts on comparing two events, people, policies, or ideas. It provides sample questions to guide students through the open compare and contrast process and outlines the procedures for using the strategy, which involves identifying topics, brainstorming similarities and differences, sorting them into categories, and drawing a conclusion about the relationship between the topics.

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Compare and Contrast

This strategy takes students beyond a simple list of similarities and differences. It requires
students to find similarities and differences and then to:
Categorize them
Assess their significance
Look for patterns among them
Interpret, evaluate, and draw conclusions
Students select their own factors to consider. As a result, class-wide sharing results in many
factors being considered and discussed.
Benefits:
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Requires students to categorize and assess the significance of similarities and differences
Requires students to interpret, evaluate, and draw conclusions
Very engaging

Compare & Contrast Graphic Organizer


You can use the Compare/Contrast Organizer to compare and contrast two events, people,
perspectives, policies, or ideas from your study. The organizer can be used in different ways,
some of which are identified below:
- Compare and contrast the effects of two events or two policies.
- Compare and contrast the qualities of two famous people.
- Compare and contrast two big ideas like democracy and totalitarianism.
This organizer should help you get your thoughts together before you write or present about the
compare/contrast topic.

Questions to be asked during open Compare & Contrast


1.
2.
3.
4.

How are they similar?


How are they different?
What similarities and differences seem significant?
What categories or pattern(s) do you see in the significant similarities and
differences?
5. What interpretation or conclusion is suggested by the significant similarities and
differences?

The procedures:
1. Identify the topic and the two items to be compared and contrasted.
2. Brainstorm everything you know about each of the two items being compared one at a
time. Write down everything you know. Look for additional information in your resource
materials (textbook, notebook, other). You can do this work on your own but you will get
many more ideas if you do it with other students. If you are doing it with another student,
you could also split the task and then share your ideas. Have one-person brainstorm
everything s/he knows about one item and the other person brainstorm everything s/he knows
about the other item. Then compare notes and add other ideas.
3. Sort the features you came up with in Step #2 into two categories: the things that are the same
for each of the two items and the things about each item that are different.
4. Identify a conclusion you have come to about the relationship between the two items. In the
Conclusion portion of the graphic organizer, answer the following three questions. Your
answers will describe the relationship between the two items.
a.
Do similarities or differences exist between the two items?
b.
What were the important areas of similarity and difference?
c.
Was one of the items you compared and contrasted better, more
important, more effective, or equal to the other itemand why?

Compare & Contrast Graphic Organizer

Compare and
contrast
..

How alike ?

How different ?????

With regard to .
Conclusion/interpretatio
.
.
.

Activity
Read the following paragraph and then use open or focused
graphic organizer to compare and contrast between the "Apples
and oranges".

"Apples and oranges are both fruits, which means that they have
seeds inside of them. Each has a skin, but orange skins are thick
and easy to peel. Apple skins are thinner and do not peel easily.
Oranges also contain more acid than apples, but both fruits are
delicious."

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