Chapter 15: Anchor Standard 9

This chapter covered comparing themes and topics. The chapter listed two main reading skills needed:

1. The ability to analyze two or more texts
2. The ability to analyze two or more texts and how they address smilier themes and topics to compare the author’s approach.

 

Literary Goals: Compare and contrast skills build upon each other, from comparing experiences of characters in a story to comparing and contrasting different versions of the same story to comparing and contrasting different stories of the same genre.

Informational Goals: Identify basic similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic to integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write and speak about the subject knowledgeably.

Activities:

Kindergarten: using a bubble map, they will write down facts about the book “The Grinch who Stole Christmas,” at the beginning and at the end of the story to compare.

1^st Grade: “Stellaluna” is read which gives a lot of facts about birds and bats. There is a T-chart on the smart board and students will drag facts to the correct side. Students can then act out the differences between a bat and bird.

2^nd Grade: Comparing Cinderella: Students will be given different versions of the classic fairytale, students will then write a paragraph comparing the two. Sentences are laid out for what each should accomplish, example: sentence 1: write and introductory sentence stating the version of Cinderella you chose.

3^rd Grade: Strega Nona vs. Big Anthony: two books that have the same characters. Fill out a plot diagram for each story, “Narrative Mountain” and then compare the two looking for similarities and differences.

4^th Grade: Students will act out the story The Three Little Pigs from different points of view (wolf, house, pig). Students can pick their point of view and act it to another person with a different point of view. They then write a paragraph stating similarities and differences of the two points of view as a follow up of discussing how they felt in each point of view.

5^th Grade: Compare and contrast stories in the same genre, answer the same three questions from each source, then write a follow up paragraph.

Differentiation:

For ELL students texts can be translates, and diverse cultures can be included in texts for them to be relatable.

For lower level students, instead of them finding the facts themselves the teacher can provide facts for the student to separate as similar and different.