Compare and Contrast Reports

Our most recent story in reading was Cook-A-Doodle-Doo by Janet Stevens. This humorous story is a "fractured" fairy tale based upon the classic folk tale, Little Red Hen. After reading both stories, each child wrote a two paragraph Compare and Contrast Report.

For this project, we followed the writing process and first compared the stories on a chart. After this analysis was finished, the children wrote drafts of each paragraph using a graphic organizer. Then, after revising and editing, we began our final copies. In the compare paragraph, the students individually analyzed how the stories were similar and used words such as also, both, too, similar and for example in their writing. For the contrast paragraph the children wrote about how the two tales were different while using words such as but, however, and although.

Be looking in your child's backpack for these reports to come home this week. I am particularly impressed with the development in their writing since the beginning of the year. Once again, a marvelous job by the boys and girls of Room 29!