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Comparing and Contrasting

Comparing and Contrasting. What’s the difference?. Student Learning Goal. Understanding comparisons and contrasts is noticing the similarities and differences between two or more subjects. I ask myself, how are things alike or how are they different?. How do you compare and contrast?.

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Comparing and Contrasting

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  1. Comparing and Contrasting What’s the difference?

  2. Student Learning Goal • Understanding comparisons and contrasts is noticing the similarities and differences between two or more subjects. • I ask myself, how are things alike or how are they different?

  3. How do you compare and contrast? Point out the similarities and differences between two or more subjects. Compare • Pointing out similarities Contrast • Pointing out differences

  4. What do you compare and contrast? • You may be asked to compare and contrast any of the following elements: • characters • theme • tone • subjects • perspective • main idea • setting • author’s purpose

  5. Comparison Words and Phrases • also • likewise • same as • in the same way • too • both • accordingly • resemble • similar to

  6. Write down the comparison signal words used in the following text… Donkeys are very similar to horses. Like horses, donkeys are equines. Equines resemble each other physically and they share many similar behaviors. Equines were historically prey animals, and accordingly, they behave in the same way in response to threatening situations, usually running away to evade the perceived threat.

  7. Contrast Words and Phrases • better/best • on the contrary • instead • unlike • worse/worst • harder/hardest • on the other hand • yet • differ • however • easy/easiest • different from • but • while • more/less

  8. Write down the contrast signal words used in the following text… English is one of the hardest languages for non-native speakers to learn. Unlike Spanish, in which words are generally pronounced as they look, English has many words with silent letters that aren’t pronounced. English is also different from Spanish in that it does not use written accent marks, whereas Spanish uses many accents to show readers how to pronounce words.

  9. Example of a Venn Diagram Film Drama actors dialogue set costumes directions

  10. Why should we compare and contrast information? • Seeing how things are alike and different helps you gather information and draw important conclusions.

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