Compare and Contrast Texts for Teaching Text Structure
Emily Kissner
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Grade Levels
3rd - 6th
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSRI.3.2
CCSSRI.3.3
CCSSRI.4.3
CCSSRI.4.5
CCSSRI.5.3
Formats Included
- Zip
Pages
85 pages
Emily Kissner
6.2k Followers
What educators are saying
I enjoyed that there were several passages to choose from. I used this unit to review nonfiction text structures and features. Students in my resource-level class were about to complete some of the passages independently. Other times, we used the passages as a full class lesson.
Description
Compare and contrast articles! Readers often have trouble with the text structure of compare and contrast in expository text. In this file, you'll find nine texts at multiple levels to help you support your readers as they learn how to read and understand compare and contrast text.
Texts include: Palm Trees and Pine Trees, Vernal Pool or Puddle?, Butterfly Lookalikes, Cooking in a Colonial Kitchen, Letters: Then and Now, Etiquette at the Chinese Table, Sea Gulls and Antarctic Skuas, Lentic and Lotic Waterways, and Hurricanes and Nor'easters. Each text includes activities to help students make sense of the compare and contrast text structure, including graphic organizers, before reading activities, scaffolded summaries, and sorting activities.
Reading levels are at grades 3-6. Articles include text features such as photographs, headings, and captions. Great for test preparation and content area reading.
Now with answer keys!
Also included in this bundle:
Text Structure Bundle
Other texts for teaching text structure:
Chronological texts for teaching text structure
Cause and Effect Texts for Teaching Text Structure
Compare and Contrast Texts
Description Texts for Teaching Text Structure
Problem and Solution Texts for Teaching Text Structure
Texts include: Palm Trees and Pine Trees, Vernal Pool or Puddle?, Butterfly Lookalikes, Cooking in a Colonial Kitchen, Letters: Then and Now, Etiquette at the Chinese Table, Sea Gulls and Antarctic Skuas, Lentic and Lotic Waterways, and Hurricanes and Nor'easters. Each text includes activities to help students make sense of the compare and contrast text structure, including graphic organizers, before reading activities, scaffolded summaries, and sorting activities.
Reading levels are at grades 3-6. Articles include text features such as photographs, headings, and captions. Great for test preparation and content area reading.
Now with answer keys!
Also included in this bundle:
Text Structure Bundle
Other texts for teaching text structure:
Chronological texts for teaching text structure
Cause and Effect Texts for Teaching Text Structure
Compare and Contrast Texts
Description Texts for Teaching Text Structure
Problem and Solution Texts for Teaching Text Structure
Total Pages
85 pages
Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
1 Week
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRI.3.2
Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
CCSSRI.3.3
Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
CCSSRI.4.3
Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
CCSSRI.4.5
Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
CCSSRI.5.3
Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
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