Analogies

Grades 3–10

Develop students' thinking skills and test-taking strategies

Educators have long realized that working with analogies teaches students to

• recognize and analyze relationships
• look for likenesses and differences
• draw conclusions
• work with multiple word meanings
• have fun with words

Two of the Student Books introduce younger students to the rich and complex thinking required to solve analogies. Books A and B teach students a three-step process for solving analogies—say, find, and check. Review tests throughout the books help monitor and reinforce learning.

Note: Each book can be used independently of the others.

Teacher Guides

Include complete answer keys and extension activities for individual or small-group learning.

Book A (Grades 3–4)

An excellent introduction to analogies. Twelve pages of scaffolded instruction help students find and understand relationships in concepts. Practice lessons introduce basic analogy categories

• adult-young
• object-description
• male-female
• synonym
• antonym
• object-location

Book B (Grades 5–6)

The same structured instruction as in Book A with more challenging categories and problems. Book B reviews the analogies taught in Book A and introduces eight more analogy categories

• homonym
• part-whole
• worker-place
• degree
• cause and effect
• sequence
• and more

Book C (Grades 7–8)

Students review and practice 17 types of analogies, including four new types

• object-use
• geographical
• symbol
• part-part

Book D (Grades 9–10)

For students who are familiar with analogies, this edition introduces 10 new challenging analogies, some with content from science, history, and literature. The text reviews the process for solving analogies and all problem types introduced in previous books.

• mythological
• action-meaning
• literary
• scientific
• historical
• worker-product
• and others

Analogy Posters

Ten posters divide analogies into specific user-friendly categories. Twelve reproducible worksheets and tests are included. Full-color, 11" x 17", coated for durability. Set of 10.

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