Compare and Contrast

What does it mean to compare things?

• look at differences

• look at similarities

• look at similarities and differences

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What does it mean to contrast?

• To tell what is alike and what is the same.

• To tell what is different.

• To tell what is the same.

• To tell what is alike and what is different.

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The key word same…

• Contrast
• Compare

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The key word different is…

• Contrast
• Compare

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CCSS.RL.1.3

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In which of the following situations could you compare and contrast?

• You are voting for class president and there are three students running

• You are writing an essay about which time period you’d rather live in: the 1980s or the 1880s.

• You are deciding what the major differences are between the first and last Harry Potter books.

• All of the above

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

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A teacher and a doctor both work with people every day.

The teacher works with children at the school.

The doctor sees patients at the hospital.

How are a teacher and doctor alike? Select all the correct answers.

• They work with children.

• They work in hospitals.

• They work with many people.

• They both provide a service to people.

2.Frogs and toads can live in the water and on the land. They both catch food with long, sticky tongues. They eat insects and small animals. You can tell them apart by their bodies. Frogs have long, strong back legs and thin, moist skin. Toads have shorter back legs and drier skin.  What can we contrast from this information?

• Frogs and toads can live in water and land.

• Frogs have long legs but toads have shorter legs.

• They both eat insects and small animals.

The Twins   Sarah and Ruth are twins. They were born on the same day and look alike. But Sarah and Ruth are very different people. Sarah is shy and quiet but Ruth is not shy and she loves talking to people. Sarah’s favorite school class is math, but Ruth’s favorite class is reading. The twins each have a pet. Sarah has a cat named Sally and Ruth has a pet bird named Polly. There are also more differences in the twins. Sarah’s favorite color is pink and Ruth’s favorite color is blue. Ruth likes to eat vegetables, but Sarah doesn’t like many vegetables. Also, Ruth’s favorite drink is fruit juice while Sarah’s favorite drink is milk. The twins look alike, but they are different on the inside and they are still best friends. Sarah and Ruth love each other very much. Both Sarah and Ruth...

• look alike
• are shy and quiet
• love the color purple
• enjoy celebrating their birthday

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CCSS.RL.1.3

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Which is an example of comparing characters?

• To show how the characters are different.

• To show how the characters are the same.

• To tell why the characters have a problem.

• To describe a story setting.

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Camel said being tall was best, and Pig said being short was best. Camel said if he was wrong, he would give up his hump. Pig said if he was wrong, he would give up his curly tail. They came to a garden inside a low wall. Camel reached his long neck over the wall and ate his fill. Pig could not even see over the wall. Then they came to a garden inside a high wall, with a covered gate. Pig went through the gate and ate his fill. Camel was too tall to go through the gate. They thought about all this, and decided that Camel would keep his hump, and Pig would keep his curly tail, because, as Pig said, “Tall is good when tall is needed; of short, the same is true.” What is something both animals agreed on?

• How to eat their fill.

• Being tall and being short has it's benefits.

• Being tall is better than being small.

• Being smaller means being faster.