Compare & Contrast

Acquisition Lesson Planning FormPlan for the Concept, Topic, or Skill – Not for the DayCreated By:Essential Question:Activating Strategies:(Learners Mentally Active)Acceleration/Previewing:(Key Vocabulary)Teaching Strategies:(Collaborative Pairs;Distributed Guided Practice;Distributed Summarizing;Graphic Organizers)Distributed Guided Practice/Summarizing Prompts:(Prompts Designed to Initiate PeriodicPractice or Summarizing)Sonya BennettAssessment Compare and Contrast Fourth GradeHow do I use a graphic organizer to plan and complete a compare/contrast paper?Five words—Three words: The teacher asks each student to brainstorm on his/her own 5 words/things that come tomind when thinking of elephants. Students then get into pairs, trios, or groups of four to share and discuss their words.Finally each small group selects 3 words from their discussions that they believe are most distinctive about anelephant. Each group will share and explain the reasons why they chose their particular words.Preview any vocabulary that you feel will give the students difficulties. Word suggestions are located on the conceptmap.Explain to the students that you are going to read a story entitled Elephants to use in writing a compare/contrast piece.Remind students about reading carefully to assist them in discovering similarities and differences between two typesof elephants in the story (scaffold using guiding questions chart). Remind the students that they may need to read thestory twice to ensure understanding.The teacher will distribute the story, compare/contrast graphic organizer, and rubric. Students will use the informationfrom the story to complete the graphic organizer and write a compare/contrast piece in their own words while utilizingthe writing process.How are the two objects in the story similar?How are the two objects in the story different?Summarizing Strategies:(Learners Summarize &Answer Essential Question)Students will score their paper using the rubric. The teacher will assess the summary using the rubric and conferencewith each student regarding their progress.