Compare and Contrast

Teacher: Mrs. Frappier

Grade: Second Grade
Content Area: Compare and Contrast - Language Arts

I. Content and Standards: Comparison of Virginia’s 2010 English Standards of Learning

with the Common Core State Standards for English and Literacy

Unit 8: Compare and Contrast/ Determine Text Importance

2.8 *2.7 Fiction
b) Connect experiences
c) Ask and answer questions
d) Locate information
*d) Describe characters, setting, and plot events in fiction and
poetry.
e) Characters, setting, and important events (fiction and/or poetry)
g) Main idea
*f) Identify the theme
II. Prerequisites:
i. Students should be familiar with being able to compare the story or characters to
real life or other characters in stories. Students should be able to brainstorm
different ideas about two different main ideas.

III. Essential Questions:

ii. How are the students able to brainstorm, to come up with ideas drawn from past
knowledge, in order to create a Venn Diagram?

IV. Instructional Objective:

iii. Students will be given two short stories and will have to compare how they are
similar and different. Students will compare the two different stories by creating a
Venn Diagram.

V. Materials:
 A variety of different stories
o Pictures
 Venn Diagram

VI. Procedure:
iv. Explain to the students that they will be given two short stories to read and from
past knowledge they will be able to comprehend how the stories are the same
and different.
v. After the students read both short stories start a short conversation about the two
stories and what they read. If needed re-read through the main idea of the stories
to help them recall what they read.
vi. Provide a Venn Diagram to the students and go over the parts of diagram. Allow
students to use the short stories to document how they are the same and
different.
 vii. Allow students to go over their diagram.

VII. Differentiated Instruction:

viii. Instead of students reading a short story they will be able to choose from
different pictures to compare and contrast. Students will be able to use the
pictures to brainstorm ideas. Students will be a given a sheet that says to “How
are they alike” and “How are they different.”

VIII. Assessment:
Observe the students as they are reading, allow them to read out loud to you to
and create a running record.
o This allows the teacher to see what students were able to
comprehend and apply lessons and concepts from the stories they
read.
o Are the students understanding the concept of comparing and
contrasting two different things?
o Are they students comprehending what they read?