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DVHS Continuous School Improvement
PčĆĘĊ FĔĚė
Phase Four—Comparison Contrast Writing Framework
GOAL #1/#2
SęėĆęĊČĞ: CĔėĊ SĎĝ:
CĔĒĕĆėĎĘĔē/CĔēęėĆĘę
Updated 12/01/17
Purpose:
Improve Reading & Writing Skills
Module:
Comparative writing framework for beginning writers
I am comparing and contrasting ________and _________. Although __________ and ____________are different,
they are alike in some ways. For example, they are both ____________________. There are also some inter‐
esting differences between ______________ and ________________. For example,
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________[Concluding
sentence:] __________________________________________________________________
Module:
Comparative writing framework for developed writers
On the surface, _______and _________ appear to be very
similar
. They each ________ , __________, and
____________. However, a closer analysis indicates that __________ and _________ are, in fact, very
different
in
three important ways. First, they are
different
in that __________________. Second, they
differ
in that
_________________. Finally, and most importantly, in contrast to _________________, _______________is
____________________.
[Concluding sentence:]
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
For the developed writer, each of the topic points could be the beginning of a new paragraph. Replac‐
ing the words similar with different and different with similar allows the writer to compare two items
that
look
different but that are similar. Here we are comparing items that look similar on the surface
but that differ.