Venn Diagram | The Dippy Dinner Drippers | Space Food

Compare and contrast is an activity that looks at the differences and similarities between two things. The Dippy Dinner Drippers is a book about the Dippy family being very messy eaters. The book Space Food is about a class planning a trip to go to Mars and finding out how to preserve food.

The similarities between the two books are that: the two books are fiction, they both have messages, they are both narratives and they both talk about food.

The differences for The Dippy Dinner Drippers are that: it talks about how eating messily will attract animals, all of the book is fiction, it ends with a cliffhanger and ect. The differences for Space Food is that: it talks about the different ways of preserving food, the book has factual information, it talks about bacteria and viruses and ect.

Comparing and contrasting can help to understand and synthesize the information across the texts.

LI: To understand texts using reciprocal reading.