Infer similarities based on common categories

Compare with T-Charts—not Venn Diagrams.

Plan text-to-text comparisons
with a T-Chart.

Clarify same v. different v. similar.

First compare items, objects, and photos—not texts.

How to use FigJam

Compare text details across the rows of a T-Chart.

Grades 7-12
Mini-Lesson Resources
Google Doc | Google Doc | Google Doc

Compare story elements in literature

Grades 3-12
PDF | FigJam

Compare literature using story elements.

Grades 7-12
Mini-Lesson Resources
Google Doc | Google Doc

Compare individual story elements for well-known fairy tales and movies.

Access examples.

STEPS 1 & 2: List to SEE differences. (See page 1 of each PDF below.)

STEP 3: INFER similarities. (See page 2 of each PDF below.)

T-Chart details
Passages

FigJam
“Carpet Fitter” vs.
“American Pepper”

Compare two stories in the same series.

Jordan Spieker’s kindergarteners at Immanuel Lutheran School in Seymour, Indiana
analyze two “Froggy” stories for character, setting, and plot.

Explain comparative thinking in writing

Stack comparative paragraphs
to create whole products.

Grades 7-12
Mini-Lesson Resources

Provide readers a frame to generate comparative sentences.

Compare solutions.

K-1 Template | 2-12 Template

Compare characters, versions, &/or formats

Evaluate if the movie version stayed true to the original print text.

Editable movie marquee | PDF

Compare characters.

Compare the SAME character
in two different stories.
FigJam

Compare versions of the same story.

3 Little Pigs Classic & True Story Passages | T-Chart

Make connections between cultural versions and stories with different perspectives.

Goodnight Moon
Goodnight iPad

Compare mediums.