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Comparing Literature Themes

Your ELs will compare and contrast two similar stories while strengthening their grammar skills related to noun and pronoun agreement in this lesson. Use it as a stand-alone lesson or as a precursor to the lesson Venn Diagram Collage.
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Venn Diagram Collage lesson plan.
Grade:
Fourth Grade
Subjects:
English Language Arts
Grammar and Mechanics
Vocabulary
Parts of Speech
Dictionary Skills
Pronouns
View aligned standards
RL.4.2
RL.4.9
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Venn Diagram Collage lesson plan.

Objectives

Academic

Students will be able to compare and contrast themes and patterns of events in literature.

Language

Students will be able to compare and contrast themes with subject and pronoun agreement using a graphic organizer.

Introduction

(2 minutes)
  • Read the language objective aloud and have students repeat it to a partner.
  • Emphasize that today students will learn how to compare and contrast two similar stories. Reiterate that to compare is to point out things that are the same, and to contrast is to state what is different between two things (in this case, two stories).