E2 Paired Selections

Partner #1 suggests something that both partners might like.
"Do you like chocolate?"

If both partners agree, both partners will write it in the center of the Venn diagram.

If only one partner agrees, write it under the that partner.

Take turns!

Paired Selections

​​ Paired selections may be connected by a shared theme, topic, or element. They may be the same genre, such as two poems or two excerpts from fiction, or​ they may be different genres, such as an argumentative essay and an informational text.

Drag and Drop

STAAR test questions about paired texts will ask about implicit similarities and differences between ​

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pieces of writing, meaning it will be necessary to make an inference based on ​

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from both selections. ​

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are things the selection have in common. ​

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will be unique to each text.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

Similarities

Differences

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evidence

STAAR test questions about paired texts will ask about implicit similarities & differences between two pieces of writing--

• Comparing two sections, elements, or quotations for explicit & implicit similarities:

Which sentence correctly describes the organizational pattern used by the authors of the two selections?

• Contrasting two sections, elements, or quotations for implicit differences:

Which sentence from "A Baseball School for Big-League Dreamers" contrasts with the attitude expressed in the sentence from "l Believe in the Also-Rans"?

Multiple Choice

What is one difference between the authors' treatment of their subjects?

• While the author of "Down on the Farm?" observes that a farm is a place where nobody wants to be, the author of "The Story of an African Farm" depicts farm life as desirable.

• While the author of "Down on the Farm?" explains general facts about the decline of farm life, the author of "The Story of an African Farm" uses imagery to paint a picture of one farm.

Multiple Choice

Although the authors of the selections write in different styles, both of them make use of —

• occasional dialogue

• vivid descriptions

Word Cloud

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