Teacher: Boyd Subject: Shared Reading : compare and Date:

contrast 02/22/17
Essential Questions: Key Vocabulary:
Why do we need to compare and contrast? Compare
What is the difference between comparing and Contrast
contrasting? President
Election
SOL(s)
Rally
K.9 Student will demonstrate comprehension of
Vote
fictional texts
d) begin to ask and answer questions about what is read
Materials:
e) use story language in discussions & retellings
Book: Grace for
K.2 Student will expand understanding and use of
President
word meanings
c) use words to describe/name people, places, and
things
e) use words to describe/name actions
f) ask about words not understood

Student Objective:
Things to consider: Specific content & skills the student will learn from THIS lesson; Verb(s) & Level of
Thinking [Blooms]

The student will be able to recall at least one thing that was the same about Grace and
Thomas and one thing that was different about each.

Student will use descriptive vocabulary in their comparisons and contrasts.

Student will recognize vocabulary compare vs. contrast.

Learning Activities: Additional Information

The most effective way to get to the learning to Consider:
The hook (Create
relevance)
Questions
Before: Display the cover of the book and ask for predictions. Strategies
Access prior knowledge about presidents and build background Resources
about the ones they know through questioning. Groupings
Differentiation
Engagement
Who are some presidents that you know of? Etc

What does the president of the U.S. do?

Do you know what they had to do to become president?

Just like we have a president who is in charge of the whole United

States, you can also have presidents of other things. There are
presidents of businesses and this book is about the student
president of a school. This means students, just like you, choose
one student to lead the school like the president leads the United
States.

-Review- Venn diagram: Draw and review what a Venn diagram

is. Explain that we will fill it out for two main characters.

These two circles will represent our two main characters, Grace
and Thomas. In these areas we will write things that are different
about Grace and Thomas. In the middle we will write about the
things they have in common. When we talk about what two
people have in common, we are comparing them. When we talk
about what is different about two people, we are contrasting
them.

- During: Check predictions, ask compare/contrast questions. Ask

students what they think will happen next. Ask students why they
think each character is acting the way they are. Address
vocabulary listed above.

After: Response questions/discussion/Venn diagram

What made the characters alike? When we talk about what is the
same, we are comparing.
What made them different? When we talk about what is different,
we are contrasting.
Which character worked harder?
Why do you think that Grace won?
Pre-planned Assessment(s): Group Venn Diagram: Compare Additional Information:
Checking for
and Contrast Understanding
* Grace- worked hard for campaign, speeches at recess, cupcakes Formative and/or
at lunch, rallies after school, listened to what classmates wanted, Summative
started taking action before the final vote
*Thomas- worked for school and soccer, spelling words at recess,
science experiment at lunch, soccer after school, made up his own
list of promises
*Both- Came up with [campaign slogans] sayings for themselves,
list of promises, made posters and buttons, speeches for all the
students
Closure: What does it mean to compare? To contrast?
What do you think about the fact that there has not been a girl president
before?
Which person do you think you would vote for?

On a piece of paper draw one thing that was the same about the two candidates. On
the other side, draw something that was different about the candidates.
Ms. Cornish and I can write students explanations of their drawings on their paper as
they dictate to us.