Compare and Contrast Texts

When we compare and contrast while reading we are looking for:

• similarities and differences

• wrongs and rights

• truth and lies

• clues and facts

what type of story structure looks at similarities and differences of a text?

• compare and contrast

• sequence

to explain how something is similar to something else

• contrast

• compare

• similar

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.

how two ore more topics or ideas are similar or different

• sequence

• descriptive

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

When comparing and contrasting 2 texts, one should discuss the similarities and differences of...

• facts & details, author's tone and context clues

• facts & details, pop-out sentences and context clues

• facts & details, author's tone and text structure

• facts & details, citing evidence and context clues

Refer to the article titled “The Stripes Will Survive,” the passage titled “The Zoos Go Wild,” and a passage from the article “Our Beautiful Macaws and Why They Need Enrichment.”. You have read three texts that claim that the role of zoos is to protect animals. Write an essay that compares and contrasts the evidence each source uses to support this claim. Be sure to use evidence from all three sources to support your response.

• Research Simulation

• Narrative Writing

• Literary Analysis

_______ both texts to identify the differences between each author’s argument.

• Compare

• Contrast

• Conclude

• Interpret

• details about an important event in history

• descriptions of Sacagawea's thoughts and feelings

• information about Lewis and Clark's famous journey

• an account of Sacagawea's kidnapping by a Hidatasa man

You must analyze the similarities and differences in Thomas Crane's article "Down with Uniforms" and Selena Smith's essay "Why We Need School Uniforms." What can you tell immediately from the titles?

• Before you read, you can tell Thomas Crane does not support uniforms while Selena Smith believes in school uniforms.

• You can't tell anything because you don't have enough information.

• You can tell Selena Smith supports school uniforms.

• Thomas Crane does not support school uniforms.