[PEPteach]

I'm working on comparing and contrasting with my 4th graders. Do you know of any "new" ideas to make this exciting, besides the venn diagram?

[suem]

I have used Cinderella stories to teach comparing and contrasting. I read several of the worlds Cinderella stories, or for fourth grade they could read them and then write about the differences. I also show at least two Cinderella movies. This year it was Disney's Cinderella then Ever After. We do some of the comparing so they can get the idea of what I want. I ask questions ie. if there is a father around, step sisters or biological sisters, etc. They get teh idea fairly easily.

[Leah E]

With my 6th graders this year, I had them make a list of what they do in the morning to get ready for school (wake up, brush teeth, eat breakfast, etc.) with times. Then they made a separate list of their morning routine on Saturday and we compared and contrasted the lists. They really liked it.

[Paul S.]

I have been attending a seminar about research based strategies that are effective, and they swear by the importance of analogies, so we have been making some. For example, Reader is to plot as hiker is to path.

The whole idea is to see similarities and contrasts.