1. Strategies for Organising Ideas
Compare and Contrast
Strategies for Organising Ideas

2. To Compare
Is to identify similarities AND differences

3. To Contrast
Is to Focus on the DIFFERENCES ONLY

4. To Compare
Venn Diagram

5. To Compare
Double Bubble

6. To Compare Metaphor and Simile
Cell membranes are like ________________________ because ___________________________

7. To Compare
Analogy
Bone is to Skelton as word is to ____________
Why?

8. To Compare
Language of comparison
X differs from Y in that ………..

9. To Compare Language of comparison
The major difference between X and Y is ……………………………

10. To Compare
Language of comparison
X is more …………. than Y, because

11. To Compare
Language of comparison
X is not as …………… as Y, because ………

12. To Compare Language of comparison
An element which X and Y have in common is ……….

13. To Compare Language of comparison
One characteristic X and Y share ……………

14. To Compare
Language of comparison
X and Y are both …………..

15. To Compare
Language of comparison
X is ……….., whereas Y is ………

16. To Compare
Language of comparison
While X is …………., Y is ……………..

17. To Compare
Language of comparison
Unlike X, Y is ………….., ………….