An essential component of teaching Compare and Contrast writing is to identify connections between categories. Without this component, students will tend to write long lists of unrelated facts or single detail sentences which don't follow main ideas.

These lessons are designed to teach students how to identify and sort facts into categories and to organize those facts when writing Compare and Contrast compositions.

Included in this packet are 3 Lessons for teaching Categorization with 2 accompanying templates and 2 lessons on Compare and Contrast Pre-writing, with two original graphic organizers.