Venn Diagram
Adapted from the Nebraska K-12 Foreign Language Frameworks :
Main Purpose … .
To show characteristics that are shared
and different between similar ideas,
people, events, and places.
Thinking Skills targeted .
Example:
analyzing / categorizing / comparing-
contrasting / evaluating / investigating /
Item 2: TADPOLE
Item 1: FROG
listing / recalling
How to
use.
In the shared space, list characteristics
that are the same for each item; in the
- an adult animal
- a baby animal
single spaces, list the characteristics
Both:
- has four legs
- has no legs
that are different.
- can live in or out of
- must live in water
- can swim
Language
Implications.
water
breathes through gills
- must be wet
Consider the language implications of this
- breathes through
graphic organizer and identify the specific
its skin
structure(s) you want to target. Design a
language task that will require students to
further their language use. The language
implications for this particular graphic
organizer will vary, depending upon the
activity designed, and may include:
• present tense
• past tense
• Comparative adjectives
• transitional words/phrases for
compare/contrast (e.g. however,
but, besides,…)
• other hand, in contrast, …
• phrases to identify similarities
create your own
• superlatives
• because clauses to explain the
differences