venn diagrams-compare nonfiction text to historical fiction text
T-chart to compare two ideas or characters
web activity in content areas i.e. nonliving and living things showing dependency upon each other
poetry unit-teach what they are; students practice writing them within their poems; have not taught metaphors as a way to compare thoughts or ideas in other areas
touch on analogies in daily language, discuss relationships and connections
-students never had to write their own
Shirley
Venn Diagrams in reading
Ex: Character analysis and
Genre of stories
Category Organizer for Word Sorts
Ex: Teacher directed sorts like sort
words by the number of syllables
As part of reg. ed.
grade 5 poetry unit
students compose personal
trait poems by comparing physical
characteristics to a similar object.
Ex: My eyes are large green marbles.
I use analogies when I am reviewing pa
Kdg.
Use balance scale (whole class to model and begin), predict which is heavier with 'flip sticks', take turns weighing objects, recording on chart
Classify 3-D shapes of objects into geometric categories; use animal pictures to classify as diurnal, nocturnal, or corpuscular; use food pictures/seed packets to classify as part of the plant we eat. Classify plants by root systems, leaf shapes, or where it grows.
Have children complete a simple metaphor (select picture from group of pictures) EX: eye is to lamp as ear is to (radio).
Sentence starters: red as a _; (color word) as a _.
Jill
Comparing the changes that occur between boys and girls during puberty - Changes that happen to 1) Girls 2) Boys 3) Both
Classifying sports into categories based on the tactics or the ideas implemented into the game. For example "Striking Games" such as baseball, softball, golf etc. "Invasion Games" such as soccer, field hockey, football etc.
Metaphors - Teaching students about the human body cell and having them compare it to a city. Ex "City Limits" cell membrane, "Electric Company" mitochondria
Analogies - Cell to Tissue to Organ to Organ System to Organism IS LIKE Field Hockey Player to Center Back (Position) to Defense to Field Hockey Team to Athletic Program
Cory
Compare the characters in two different stories (Odd Velvet & Bootsie Barker, for example). How are they alike/different; how did the other children react to/treat both characters; common changes in the characters... Possibly use cooperative learning groups for this??
Organize feelings as comfortable and uncomfortable (PATHS); students draw feeling faces on pre-made cards which are yellow (comfortable) and blue ( uncomfortable)
Still thinking on this one...
Extension of feelings identification unit activity; Happy is to smile, as sad is to frown... Could also incorporate into Olweus bullying program.
Jen
I've used this strategy during K small group non-fiction reading lessons when comparing spiders with animals that are not spiders, comparing farm animals and zoo animals, mammals and insects, etc.
I've used this for strategy for math when sorting attribute blocks (size, color, shape) with pre-K and Kindergarten level students.
I haven't used this strategy often but think it could be used successfully for inclusion science lessons by comparing plants to our bodies and how we grow.
I haven't used this strategy often but think it could be used in a meaningful way to introduce concepts such as opposites.
Sandy
Math: Use a Venn diagram to indicate when it is best to use fractions vs. percents (or either) to solve a problem.
Math: Use a matrix to classify money from different countries.
Math: Identify items that represent mathematical concepts. Examples: volume-a can of Spaghetti-Os, perimeter-a fence octagon-stop sign area-tiling a bathroom floor
Math: Use the graphic organizer to create analogies and justify the relationship of math skills used in careers.
Complete the Chart Activity - Implications for Practice
Kindergarten - Santa Claus in different countries and compared & contrasted different characteristics
Word sort
Living and Nonliving Things
Word wall - sorting by short vowels and/or long vowels
The Chart is very adaptable for differentiation
Parts of speech & syllables
Polygons, quadrilaterals, etc.
How They Relate Activity - Implications for Practice
Analogies
"We're going on a trip..."
Ex. Create a rule, plural and singular for example, students have to try to guess the rule and try to offer an answer to see if they know the rule. So, on this trip, we can take desks but not the chair, earrings but not a necklace, etc.
"What's my rule?"
Call up students and then ask the students what the rule is. The rule could be physical characteristics or commonalities, etc.
Discussion from the Chapter:
An analogy could be an exit slip
Discussion and inquiry are a beneficial by-product
Promotes higher level thinking
"I Spy"
Incorporating what's my rule and Venn diagrams with kinesthetics: create a physical Venn diagram on the floor. Have a student take objects and place them in the Venn diagram. Then have other students try to take objects and place them correctly in the Venn diagram according to the student's rule. The student who developed the rule tells the other students whether their objects fit or don't fit.
T-chart to compare two ideas or characters
-students never had to write their own
Ex: Character analysis and
Genre of stories
Ex: Teacher directed sorts like sort
words by the number of syllables
grade 5 poetry unit
students compose personal
trait poems by comparing physical
characteristics to a similar object.
Ex: My eyes are large green marbles.
perimeter-a fence
octagon-stop sign
area-tiling a bathroom floor
Complete the Chart Activity - Implications for Practice
How They Relate Activity - Implications for Practice
Discussion from the Chapter: