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Compare and contrast story elements Grade Level: 3  Subject(s): Reading Unit Summary:  In this language arts unit, students participate in a variety of activities to help them analyze literay elements among stories, focusing in similarities and differences. Students will conduct activities that will help them understand relationships between character traits, story events, plot, problem-solution and settings. Students will use the Visual Ranking tool to rank character traits, and then compare those traits among characters in two different stories. They will use the Seeing Reasoning Tool to analyze events in one story. Students will also create their own project and present it to the class were they will compare and contrast themselves to a classmate.  Curriculum Framing Questions


 * Essential Question |||||||||| How are things related? ||
 * Unit Questions |||||||||| What is the importance of identifying similarities and differences? ||
 * Content Questions |||||||||| What is alike (compare) and different (contrast)? What is cause and effect? What are literary elements? How do (settings, plots, events, characters) across stories share similarities and differences? What are similarities and differences between cultures? ||

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