Name: The Concept Comparison Routine (Softcover)
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The Concept Comparison Routine (Softcover)

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Teachers use the Concept Comparison Routine to help students compare and contrast key concepts by exploring characteristics of each concept and then distinguishing between the concepts that were similar and those that were different.

Within any subject area, there are always important concepts that are similar but not the same. Take math, for example. Fractions and decimals are similar, but they are not the same. In social studies, democracy and socialism are similar but not the same. What’s a good way to help students understand each of these concepts individually and as they relate to each other?

One way to do this is with the Concept Comparison Routine. Using a graphic organizer called a Comparison Table, students, with the teacher’s guidance, begin by identifying the characteristics of two or more important and related concepts. Next, they identify ways in which the concepts are alike and ways in which they are different. They then identify larger categories to which these similar and dissimilar characteristics belong, and develop a summary of how the concepts are alike yet different. This routine is good way to teach analytic thinking.

This instructor’s manual provides step-by-step instructions on how to introduce this routine to students and use the routine over time.

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