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Subject: ESL/ELL (English Language Learning)
Lesson Length: 30 - 45 mins
Topic: Compare and Contrast
Grade Level: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Standards / Framework:
Brief Description: Students will practice using key words to signal compare and contrast.
Know Before You Start: This lesson is intended to help students use key words when speaking and writing to express their ideas on how two things are similar or different.
Hook:
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Read and discuss the sample comic.
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Discuss how in English, you can use certain words to compare people, things, or ideas to show how they are similar or the same.
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In addition, you can use certain words to contrast, or tell how people, things, or ideas are different.
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Create a T-chart of words that signal compare and contrast, e.g., also, like, too, same, similar, both; but, differ, however, unlike, while.
Activity:
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Write down topic pairs on index cards and have students choose a pair, e.g., whales and sharks, dogs and cats, two favorite movies, two favorite video games.
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Using the sample comic as a guide, have students create a comic that compares and contrasts their topic pair.
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Display sentence frames and/or signal words for students to use in their comic.
Closure:
- Have students present their comics to the whole group or in pairs.
Differentiation:
- Allow students to use speech-to-text as needed.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Allow students to work in pairs as needed.
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Print out the comic and have students highlight the signal words they used.
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Adapt sentence frames to match student language level.
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Allow students to come up with their own topic pair.
Suggested Content Packs:
Make a comic about Cinderella Around the World
Make a comic about Ancient Rome
Make a comic about Ancient Greece
Make a comic about the Airport
Suggested Story Starters:
