Identifying Similarities & Differences Classroom Instruction That Works Lake Myra Elementary Professional Development.

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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