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Growing Rice, Cooking Rice: Compare Two Texts

Read two short original texts about rice, one on how it grows and one on cooking it at home, then compare their most important points.

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Aligned toRI.2.9

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students identify the most important point of each of two texts on the same topic.
Students tell which points two texts share and which points only one text makes.
Students use details from both texts to compare how each text explains the same idea.

How to use

Read Text A and Text B aloud or with a partner. Have students look back at both texts as they answer, then talk about which points the two authors share.

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Common Core standard covered

RI.2.9

Compare and contrast the most important points made by two texts on the same topic.

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Growing Rice, Cooking Rice: Compare Two Texts

Compare the most important points in two texts about rice.

Read the two texts

Two authors each wrote a text about rice. Read Text A and Text B.

Text A: Where Rice Comes From

Rice is the seed of a kind of grass. People have grown rice for thousands of years. Today, rice is a main food for many families around the world.

Rice plants need a lot of water. Many farmers grow rice in flat fields covered with shallow water. These wet fields are called paddies. The young plants grow tall and green. When the grains are ripe, the plants turn golden. Then farmers cut the plants and take the grains off the stems.

Each grain of rice has a hard shell that people cannot eat, so the shell is taken off. Under the shell is a thin brown layer. Brown rice keeps this layer. For white rice, the layer is rubbed off, too.

Text B: Cooking Rice at Home

Families in many parts of the world eat rice every day. Rice is simple to cook, but a grown-up should help because the pot gets very hot.

First, many cooks rinse the dry rice in cool water. Next, they put the rice and fresh water in a pot. They heat the pot until the water bubbles. Then they put on the lid and turn the heat down low. As the rice cooks, each hard grain soaks up water. The grains become soft and grow much bigger.

White rice cooks faster than brown rice. Brown rice has a thin outer layer, so it needs more time to get soft. Cooked rice can be served in many ways, such as fried rice, rice and beans, or sweet rice pudding.

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