Similarities+and+Differences

=Read and Reflect=

How do you currently apply this strategy without the use of technology? When I work with elementary students to help them understand how the media center (and other libraries are organized) I have found that using what students already know and using it as a point of comparison and illustration help understanding. When teaching students about call numbers, shelves and sections of the library I use the analogy of addresses, streets and neighborhoods. Students are taught that in libraries the call number is like the books address. It tells us where that book should be placed on the shelf. The shelves are like streets and the sections (picture books, fiction, non-fiction) are like neighborhoods. Students get practice with this idea by creating addresses for books and locating books using call numbers.

When teaching literature a big emphasis in recent years is getting students to make connections between what they are reading and their own lives.

What new insight did you gain from the reading? I never realized the importance of teaching similarties and differences. I think I have had student make some of these connections in my teaching but was not aware of that it could be such a useful strategy.

=Apply and Reflect=

Provide evidence of the tool that you learned.

http://mywebspiration.com/view/435698a2962b

How might you use this tool in your classroom? I would use this tool to help students develop compare and contrast papers but also to help them categorize information and generate and organize their ideas.