Think Analogies Level A1 (Grades 3-5)

Recommended Grades: 3-5. Looking for an easy-to-understand method to teach analogies with plenty of practice? This 56-page workbook teaches students how to analyze and classify analogies by relationship, category, and structure. Students who learn strategies to make and complete analogies benefit in many ways. They sharpen their reasoning skills as they analyze the subtleties of language and relationship presented in analogies. As students learn to understand simple word analogies, they move toward understanding more complex analogous relationships presented in literature, science, and history. Analogies are also a key component of many assessment and ability tests.

Think Analogies® A1 begins with an exploration of word relationships. Students classify word groups and form pairs of related items, and then identify types of analogous relationships and classify them. Finally, they select and supply words and word pairs to complete analogies.

Lessons and activities include the following:

• Classifying Groups of Things
• Classifying Word Groups
• Making Word Pairs
• Lesson: Classifying Word Pairs
• Lesson: How to Make an Analogy
• Lesson: Classifying Analogies
• Lesson: Classification Analogies
(part of/kind of)
• Part-Whole and Kind-of Analogies
• Lesson: Synonym and Antonym Analogies
• Synonym and Antonym Analogies
• Classifying Analogies
• Lesson: Descriptive Analogies (something used to/someone who)
• Descriptive Analogies
• Classifying Analogies
• Lesson: Completing Analogies
• Recognizing Correct Analogies
• Complete the Analogy—Select
• Complete the Analogy Pair
• Lesson: Writing Analogies
• Complete the Analogy—Select
• Complete the Analogy—Supply
• Analogies Game