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Informational Text Understanding Comparison and Contrast

Informational Text Understanding Comparison and Contrast. Comparison and Contrast. When you compare , you look at two or more things and see how they are the same; when you contrast , you look for differences.

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Informational Text Understanding Comparison and Contrast

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  1. Informational Text Understanding Comparison and Contrast

  2. Comparison and Contrast When you compare, you look at two or more things and see how they are the same; when you contrast, you look for differences. Look at these two photographs of eggs. First compare the two photographs. Then contrast them. Using a Venn Diagram

  3. Comparison and Contrast To compare and contrast things, writers use a compare-and-contrast organizational pattern. Writers use one of two methods. Block method The writer discusses all the features of subject 1, then all the features of subject 2. Point-by-point method The writer chooses a feature and shows how it applies to subject 1, then how it applies to subject 2.

  4. Topic-eggs Topic–eggs Subject 1 Container–nest Subject 2 Container-basket Setting–artificial Setting-natural Comparison and Contrast To use the block method, discuss all the features of subject 1. Then discuss all the features of subject 2.

  5. Feature 1 Topic-eggs Topic–eggs Container-basket Feature 2 Container–nest Setting-natural Setting–artificial Feature 3 Comparison and Contrast To use the point-by-point method, choose a feature and show how it applies to subject 1. Then show how each feature applies to subject 2. Subject 2 Subject 1

  6. Comparison and Contrast Remember, when you compare two or more things, think about how they are the same; when you contrast, you look for differences. These two dragons are the same in some ways and different in other ways.

  7. Comparison and Contrast To compare the dragons of Pern in “The Smallest Dragonboy,” you would look for ways in which the dragons are the same. They all bond with a human for life. They all help defend the planet from the evil Thread.

  8. Comparison and Contrast To contrast the dragons of Pern, you would look for ways in which they are different. Green dragons are small and fast. Brown dragons are large and strong. Only the huge bronze dragons can mate with the queen.

  9. Comparison and Contrast In “Here Be Dragons,” the writer compares and contrasts dragons. Which method does the writer use? Point-by-Point Method Block Method Subject 1: Eastern dragons Feature 1: Behavior Feature 2: Origins Feature 3: Appearance Feature 1: Behavior Subject 1: Eastern dragons Subject 2: Western dragons Feature 2: Origins Subject 1: Eastern dragons Subject 2: Western dragons Subject 2: Western dragons Feature 1: Behavior Feature 2: Origins Feature 3: Appearance

  10. Comparison and Contrast The End

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