Compare and contrast
Comparing and contrasting is one of the most important reading skills you need. Comparison and contrast are ways of looking at ideas and thinking about how they are alike and different. Most of the time, you compare and contrast on a venn diagram. A venn diagram is a useful tool to state the similarities and differences between two ideas. On a venn diagram the differences go on the outside circles and the similarities go in the oval in the middle. The hard part of a venn diagram is finding similarities.