"...a resource especially for teachers instructing students in grades 4-10 in the fine art of writing. Crafting Comparison Papers offers lessons to aid students in learning how to create papers that describe both similarities and differences -- a skill that will prove invaluable for both higher education and career-related writing. Lessons with specific "Target Skills™" to support student progress, guidelines for assessing student writing, recommendations for helping students learn how to organize a comparison paper and much more fill this solid supplementary tool, highly recommended for middle, junior high, and high school English teachers as well as homeschooling instructors."
-The Midwest Book Review, December 2006

"The opportunity to incorporate the writing of comparison papers arises frequently across the curriculum...Marcia Freeman makes the point that, as is the case in all aspects of teaching the craft of writing, teaching the craft of comparison must be explicit. She shows us how to do that in five chapters...The four steps of the instructional sequence for teaching the crafting of comparison papers are covered in depth: 1) Identifying and describing physical and abstract attributes by writing a descriptive paragraph, 2) Using a graphic organizer to compare by multiple attributes, 3) Writing a comparison paragraph using cue words and 4) Organizing and writing a multi-paragraph comparison paper. It's hard to make a misstep using the approach presented step-by-step."
-Teaching K-8 Magazine, October 2006, page 46