Ages: 6-12
Grades: 1-7

Teach the skill of comparing and contrasting in a variety of unique verbal and visual contexts. Students practice strategies and learn to apply them to their everyday thinking and decision making. Build basic reasoning skills with step-by-step instruction and activities designed to build on success. Start by teaching students the vocabulary of comparing and contrasting (i.e., words such as alike, different, similar, shape, location).

Then, use the one-page activities to teach students to:

• tell how things are alike and different
• identify what belongs and doesn't belong in a group
• compare by characteristics
• identify similarities

The book is written in the proven format of the Spotlight Series with:

• activities sequenced by complexity
• visual cues that are gradually faded
• skills defined in student-friendly terms
• a variety of curricular and daily living topics
• simple sentence structure and vocabulary so students can focus on learning the concepts
• minimal writing requirements in the beginning lessons
• a pretest/posttest

40 pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover • ©2007