https://padlet.com/youngkl1/4hyoo08kgpml Element 17: Helping Students Examine Similarities and Differences en-us 2017-09-21 01:09:17 UTC 2017-09-21 01:27:25 UTC hello@padlet.com youngkl1 https://padlet.com/youngkl1/4hyoo08kgpml/wish/189578676 A Venn Diagram is used for comparisons. Students can use a Venn Diagram to compare two to three different people, places, events, ideas, items, or processes. When the circles overlap students will write similarities. On the outside circles students will write the differences. ]]> 2017-09-21 01:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/youngkl1/4hyoo08kgpml/wish/189578676 youngkl1 https://padlet.com/youngkl1/4hyoo08kgpml/wish/189579275 Element 17 involves comparing, classifying, and creating metaphors and analogies. When students compare the point out the similarities and differences. When students classify they sort similar things. When students create metaphors they perceive a pattern that connect two things to each other. The strategies in this element include: sentence stem comparisons, venn diagrams, comparison matrix, sentence stem analogies, and visual analogies. ]]> 2017-09-21 01:17:28 UTC https://padlet.com/youngkl1/4hyoo08kgpml/wish/189579275 youngkl1 https://padlet.com/youngkl1/4hyoo08kgpml/wish/189580023 Teachers can use their interactive white board to create an interactive Venn Diagram. Teachers can project a Venn Diagram on the Promethean Board and students can complete it together. Students can put images, words, or sound in the Venn Diagram, based on what they are comparing. ]]> 2017-09-21 01:22:09 UTC https://padlet.com/youngkl1/4hyoo08kgpml/wish/189580023 youngkl1 https://padlet.com/youngkl1/4hyoo08kgpml/wish/189580397 I suggest that this graphic organizer is done as a whole group first. The teacher can model his/her thinking on what they are comparing. I would project the graphic organizer on the Promethean Board and talk about what each section means and what students should put in it. 

I can implement Venn Diagrams when students are comparing different text features in a nonfiction text. For example, students can compare Headings and Titles. These two have similarities and differences. Or students could compare Narrative Nonfiction texts with Expository Nonfiction texts. ]]> 2017-09-21 01:24:58 UTC https://padlet.com/youngkl1/4hyoo08kgpml/wish/189580397