4.3 Compare and Contrast

Compare and Contrast

Show how two or more things are
alike and/ how they are different.

How is it assessed?

•In what way are the topics of the story and the palm similar?

•How does Anthony in the story differ from the speaker in the poem?

•The ending of the story on the ending of the poem are similar, because both
Anthony and the speaker –

•Grandpa in the story, and the mother in the poem would most likely agree that –

•An idea emphasized throughout the selection is that Rodriguez's indophyte
solution-

•What is one way that Rodriguez's and Jonkers' methods were similar?

•Which sentence from the cure for concrete shows a similar outcome for bio
concrete?

•What is one problem presented about bio concrete that is not presented about
endophyte fungi?

Compare

❖ tell what is the same about

two or more things

Oranges and Bananas

�You eat both of them.
�They are both fruits.
�You have to peel both of them.

Contrast

❖ tell what is different about

two or more things

Oranges and Bananas

�Oranges are orange.

Bananas are yellow.

�Oranges are round.Bananas are long.

�Oranges have seeds. Bananas are attached.

Venn Diagram or Double

Bubble Maps

• It is a great way to organize your

thoughts when you are comparing and
contrasting two reading selections.

• In the middle you put how the two

are alike.

• On the sides you put how the two are

different.

Organizing Your Venn

Diagram or Bubble Map

•have seeds

•orange

•round

•fruit

•can eat it

•have to
peel it

•yellow

•long

•doesn’t have
seeds

What can we compare

and contrast?

• Reading selections or books
• People, shoes, clothing, food
• Objects
• Animals
• Places
• Music
• Events

Review Compare and
Contrast key words

• Compare = same, similar to, alike

same as, not only..but also, resemble
as well as, both

• Contrast = different from, however,

although, on the other hand, as
opposed to, more than, less than

• Organize ideas using a Venn Diagram

or double bubble map.