Virginia SOL S.K.e

Social StudiesKindergarten

The Standard

identifying similarities and differences to explain content

Virginia Standards of Learning for History and Social Science

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students compare two people, places, objects, or events shown in pictures or stories. They name one way the examples are alike and one way they are different.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can point to details that support each comparison. The student uses a complete idea, such as, “Both are homes, but only one has stairs.”
Common Misconceptions: Students may say two examples are alike because both pictures use the same color. They may say “different” without naming a difference or mix up which example has a feature.
How to Assess It: Show one photo of a farm and one of a city. Ask, “Tell one way these places are alike and one way they are different.”

Lesson moves

Give pairs picture cards of homes, helpers, and transportation; students sort each pair onto Same and Different hoops and explain one choice.
Show two classroom photographs and ask, “What do both have, and what does only one have?”
Play Compare Detective: reveal two community helper cards, then award a token for each accurate same or different statement.
Walk around the school, compare the cafeteria and library, then draw one shared feature and one unique feature.

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