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Identifying Similarities & Differences
Classroom Instruction That WorksLake Myra Elementary
Professional Development
Similar or Different?
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Real World Thinking
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… of how items, events, processes, words, things or concepts are
similar and different.
4 Thinking Process Tasks
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Higher Level Thinking…
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for Understanding Content…
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at a Deeper Level….
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For High Yield Results!
That when used, this strategy can yield a 45 percentile point increase in student
achievement! Research proves it works!
Bridging Known to New
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Comparing Classifying Creating Metaphors
Creating Analogies
…is identifying
and articulating S & D between
or among items or ideas.
…is identifying
characteristics and
grouping like items.
...is identifying a
pattern in one topic, then finding a
different topic that has the
same pattern.
…is identifying
and analyzing relationships
between ideas.
Essential to the Tasks
Students must understand:• Characteristic
• Property• Feature• Attribute
• Trait
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Marzano’s Recommendations
• give students a model for the process
• use familiar content to teach the steps
• give students graphic organizers • both teacher directed guidance &• student centered opportunities
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Layers of Scaffolding
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Teacher Directed-Explicit
Guidance
Student Directed-
IndependentlyIdentifying
Sorting Rule
Provided
Sorting Rule Self-Generated
Comparing & Classifying
• Listening for rhyming sounds, vowel sounds• Looking at letters, fonts, words carefully• Book Characters• Producers, Consumers, Decomposers• Freshwater & Saltwater• Tsunamis & Earthquakes• Solids & Liquids (Gas & Plasma)• Fiction & Non-fiction Features• Cultures/Holidays/Traditions• Numbers/Sets• Types of Music/Sounds/Art/Movement
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Thanks, John!
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Seeing Logical Relationships
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…they will never have a relationship!
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Teacher Directed
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Science
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Genres & Characters
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Assessment
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Student Directed
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Social Studies
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Math Venns
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Math & Technology
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Science Notebooks
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Cooperative Learning
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Venn Pocket Charts
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Artifact Venn
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Comparison Matrix
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Comparing Story Elements
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Comparing Liquids & their Flow Rates
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T-Charts
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Author Study:Comparing Texts
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Comparingwhen Reading & Writing
CompareWords
ContrastWords
Same Different
Both But
Alike On the other hand
Similar Instead of
Compare to In contrast to
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Your Turn!
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Classifying Rocks
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Classifying Numbers
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Classifying Words
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Word Sorts
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Classifying Spelling Patterns
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Affinity Diagrams
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Sorting by Attribute
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Sorting by Hardness
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Sorting by Size
• Sorting Game: Guess My Rule!
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Your Turn!
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• Recognizing metaphors requires identifying a pattern in one topic, then finding a different topic that has the same pattern.
• “Graphic organizers are not as common with metaphors and analogies.”
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Creating Metaphors
The school showered the families with kindness.
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Weather Metaphors
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Creating Analogies
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Analogies to Teach Vocabulary
Mr. Argent Ms. Lavery Lake Myra
+ areto
Relationship: Both are important leaders of their people.
A king & queeen Their Kingdom
areto
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Analogy Caution
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What’s Essential?
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Task Differentiation Thinking
TaskGraphic
OrganizerTask DeliveryDifferentiation
Differentiation of Task Medium
Comparing(&
Contrasting)
Venn DiagramComparison Matrix
T-ChartFrayer Model
Teacher DirectedTeacher GuidedStudent Directed
Student GeneratedSorting Rule
ProvidedMystery Sorting
Rule Whole GroupSmall Group
Cooperative GroupPartnership
Peer CoachingIndependent
Before/During/After Formative
AssessmentTeam Time
Alternate TeacherHomework
Chart PaperContent Journal
Classroom Whiteboard
Small WhiteboardSmartboard Lesson
KidspirationCD’s/SoundsPaint/Baggies
Magnetic LettersWord/Picture Cards
ObjectsManipulativesSticky NotesSorting Mats
Pocket ChartsVenn RingsBooks/Music
Classifying Sorts-Word, Picture, Sound,
ObjectsClassifying Organizer
Affinity Diagram
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Creating Analogies
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Where Are Your Students?
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