Green Eggs and Ham: Comparing and Contrasting Text to Media

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Read aloud Green Eggs and Ham to the class and encourage them to write down as many rhyming words as possible on their worksheets.
• After reading, ask students to volunteer rhyming words they wrote down while the other students cross off the rhyming pairs if they have them written on their document. Continue until everyone's rhyming words have been crossed off.

Guided Practice

• Play Green Eggs and Ham video.
• Ask students to volunteer a few similarities and differences between the book and the video. Write the examples given on the board.
• Pass out the Venn diagram printouts.
• Project a copy of the Venn diagram and help the students label it: "Book," "Both," and "Video."
• Encourage the students to write examples given on the board onto the appropriate section of their Venn diagrams.

Independent working time

• Allow students time to continue to fill out the Venn diagram until they have at least five items written in each section.
• Allow five minutes of time for students to work with a partner to write additional information onto their Venn diagrams.