Nonfiction Lesson 7

COMPARING &
CONTRASTING
WHAT AUTHORS SAY
NONFICTION LESSON 7
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COMPARING & CONTRASTING
HOW
AUTHORS
TEACH US
INFORMATION
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NONFICTION LESSON 10
Two-Spot
Biologist Robert Young studies animal
Fish
behavior. When he started working with
two-spot astyanax in Brazil, his goal was to
help protect them from a human-made
danger. Two-spots are common in rivers
throughout South America, including rivers
with hydroelectric power plants. Two-
spots often swim into power plant
turbines. It’s a fatal mistake, because the
turbine’s spinning blades can kill fish.
Text: Young wanted to devise a way to keep the
When two-spots out of the turbines. He
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wondered if scaring the little fish away with
Fights models of predators might be a solution.
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Two-Spot Biologist Robert Young studies animal behavior. When he
Fish started working with two-spot astyanax in Brazil, his goal
was to help protect them from a human-made dancer.
Two-spots are common in rivers throughout South
America, including rivers with hydroelectric power plants.
Two-spots often swim into power plant turbines. It’s a
fatal mistake, because the turbine’s spinning blades can
kill fish. Young wanted to devise a way to keep the two-
spots out of the turbines. He wondered if scaring the little
fish away with models of predators might be a solution.
Structure Craft
Chronological word choice

Text:
Problem/Solution structure choice
When
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Fights Compare/Contrast text features

Back
Two-Spot Biologist Robert Young studies animal behavior. When he
Fish started working with two-spot astyanax in Brazil, his goal
was to help protect them from a human-made dancer.
Two-spots are common in rivers throughout South
America, including rivers with hydroelectric power plants.
Two-spots often swim into power plant turbines. It’s a
fatal mistake, because the turbine’s spinning blades can
kill fish. Young wanted to devise a way to keep the two-
spots out of the turbines. He wondered if scaring the little
fish away with models of predators might be a solution.
Structure Craft
Text:
When
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Fights
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Giant Clam Science doesn’t always follow a clear-cut path.
Sometimes discoveries happen that
completely derail everything we thought we
knew. Think of Galileo and the discovery that
earth orbits the sun, not the other way around,
or Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution
took biology into completely new and
unexpected directions. Scientific revolutions
happen when we stop seeing the world we
expect and start seeing the world as it is.
The incredible biological world of the vents

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may never have been discovered had scientists
Text:
not been trying to solve a geological puzzle.
Alien Deep
Giant Clam Science doesn’t always follow a clear-cut path. Sometimes
discoveries happen that completely derail everything we thought we
knew. Think of Galileo and the discovery that earth orbits the sun,
not the other way around, or Charles Darwin, whose theory of
evolution took biology into completely new and unexpected
directions. Scientific revolutions happen when we stop seeing the
world we expect and start seeing the world as it is.
The incredible biological world of the vents may never have been
discovered had scientists not been trying to solve a geological puzzle.
Structure Craft
Chronological word choice
Problem/Solution structure choice
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Text: Compare/Contrast text features

Alien Deep
Giant Clam Science doesn’t always follow a clear-cut path. Sometimes
discoveries happen that completely derail everything we thought we
knew. Think of Galileo and the discovery that earth orbits the sun,
not the other way around, or Charles Darwin, whose theory of
evolution took biology into completely new and unexpected
directions. Scientific revolutions happen when we stop seeing the
world we expect and start seeing the world as it is.
The incredible biological world of the vents may never have been
discovered had scientists not been trying to solve a geological puzzle.
Structure Craft
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Text:
Alien Deep
TALK ABOUT ONE AT A TIME…
what they how they

organized
taught
information
Comparing
&
Contrasting
the words author’s

they used goals
author’s
goals
ΖχϟψϋϖώϕϚϕωϕϖϏϋϊόϕϘωϒχϙϙϘϕϕϓϛϙϋͨЫлйкоψϟΕϛωϟΌχϒϑϏϔϙχϔϊΌϕϒϒϋχύϛϋϙόϘϕϓϚώϋΝϋχωώϋϘϙΌϕϒϒϋύϋΛϋχϊϏϔύχϔϊΠϘϏϚϏϔύΙϘϕϐϋωϚόϘϕϓΞϔϏϚϙϕόΜϚϛϊϟόϕϘΝϋχωώϏϔύΛϋχϊϏϔύ͸ΑϋϏϔϋϓχϔϔͧΙϕϘϚϙϓϕϛϚώͥΗΑ͹ͨ
how they
presented
information
ΖχϟψϋϖώϕϚϕωϕϖϏϋϊόϕϘωϒχϙϙϘϕϕϓϛϙϋͨЫлйкоψϟΕϛωϟΌχϒϑϏϔϙχϔϊΌϕϒϒϋχύϛϋϙόϘϕϓϚώϋΝϋχωώϋϘϙΌϕϒϒϋύϋΛϋχϊϏϔύχϔϊΠϘϏϚϏϔύΙϘϕϐϋωϚόϘϕϓΞϔϏϚϙϕόΜϚϛϊϟόϕϘΝϋχωώϏϔύΛϋχϊϏϔύ͸ΑϋϏϔϋϓχϔϔͧΙϕϘϚϙϓϕϛϚώͥΗΑ͹ͨ
Compare & Contrast Venn Diagram Write the topic
of each
Two-Spot Fish Giant Clams passage.
Name: _________________________
HOMEWORK
due
Monday
May be photocopied for classroom use. © 2015 by Lucy Calkins and Colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project from Units of Study for Teaching Reading (Heinemann: Portsmouth, NH).

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COMPARING &

Chronological word choice

Fights Compare/Contrast text features

The incredible biological world of the vents

Chronological word choice

Problem/Solution structure choice

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Text: Compare/Contrast text features

what they how they

the words author’s

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