Compare and Contrast Essentials

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Compare

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Identify similarities

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Contrast

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Identify differences

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Analogy

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Comparison for explanation

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Main Idea

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the central point or message of a text

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Organizational Pattern

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How the author presents ideas in the passage

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author's purpose

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the author's reason or goal for writing the text

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Organizational Pattern: Chronological

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Arranged by time

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Organizational Pattern: Cause and Effect

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Shows reasons and results

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Organizational Pattern: Compare and contrast

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Shows similarities and differences between two or more ideas