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It’s fine to introduce students to compare-and-contrast tasks with a Venn diagram or T chart—these are useful tools for identifying similarities and differences. Ultimately, however, students will need to go beyond gathering comparisons to categorize and draw conclusions from the comparisons they make.

Key to this practice is organization. Consider the following three models for organizing a compare-and-contrast paper:

Rather than requiring a specific approach, consider modeling all three organizational strategies for students using the same information. Then, let each student choose how to organize his or her own paper. The process of grappling with organization is likely to deepen student thinking about texts or topics and may even lead to unanticipated conclusions or lines of thought.