Comparing and Contrasting Books

Our work in reading workshop has lead us to an exploration of nonfiction texts. Today we tackled common core standard RI.K.9 by comparing and contrasting books on the same topic. This is how the "official" standard reads:

Reading: Informational Text

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

9. With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).

This is what we did:

1. Made some text to text connections

2. Looked at different texts on the same topic.

3. Read two books on the same topic: weather.

4. Discussed and recorded things that were the same and different about the two books on a Venn diagram.

5. Got our browsing boxes and a reading buddy and did steps 1-4 ourselves !!!