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?


Real World Thinking


… of how items, events, processes, words, things or concepts are

similar and different.

4 Thinking Process Tasks


Higher Level Thinking…


for Understanding Content…


at a Deeper Level….



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


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


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


Layers of Scaffolding


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



Thanks, John!


Seeing Logical Relationships


…they will never have a relationship!


Teacher Directed


Science


Genres & Characters


Assessment


Student Directed


Social Studies


Math Venns


Math & Technology


Science Notebooks


Cooperative Learning


Venn Pocket Charts


Artifact Venn


Comparison Matrix


Comparing Story Elements


Comparing Liquids & their Flow Rates


T-Charts


Author Study:Comparing Texts


Comparingwhen Reading & Writing

CompareWords

ContrastWords

Same Different

Both But

Alike On the other hand

Similar Instead of

Compare to In contrast to


Your Turn!


Classifying Rocks


Classifying Numbers


Classifying Words


Word Sorts


Classifying Spelling Patterns


Affinity Diagrams


Sorting by Attribute


Sorting by Hardness


Sorting by Size

• Sorting Game: Guess My Rule!


Your Turn!

? ?

• 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.”


Creating Metaphors

The school showered the families with kindness.


Weather Metaphors

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Creating Analogies


Analogies to Teach Vocabulary

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Relationship: Both are important leaders of their people.

A king & queeen Their Kingdom

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Analogy Caution


What’s Essential?


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

Creating Metaphors

Creating Analogies


Where Are Your Students?

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instructional_tools/Strategies/Strategies.html#similar• http://www.netc.org/focus/strategies/iden.php• www.graphic.org• www.bradfitzpatrick.com• www.fotolia.com• www.microsoft.clipartgallery.com


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

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