Iintroduce your students to the rich and complex thinking required to solve analogies while helping develop their vocabulary and thinking skills. Students will learn to recognize and analyze relationships, look for likeness and differences, draw conclusions, work with multiple word meanings and have fun with words. Review tests throughout the books help monitor and reinforce learning. Teacher’s Guides include complete answer keys and extension activities for individual or small group... Read full description

Iintroduce your students to the rich and complex thinking required to solve analogies while helping develop their vocabulary and thinking skills. Students will learn to recognize and analyze relationships, look for likeness and differences, draw conclusions, work with multiple word meanings and have fun with words. Review tests throughout the books help monitor and reinforce learning. Teacher’s Guides include complete answer keys and extension activities for individual or small group learning.

Each ANALOGIES book can be used independently of the others.

BOOK A Grades 3–4
Books A and B teach students a three-step process used for solving analogies—SAY, FIND, and CHECK. An excellent introduction to analogies. Twelve pages of scaffolded instruction help students find and understand relationships in concepts. Practice lessons introduce these basic analogy categories: Antonym, Synonym, Adult-young, Object-description, Male-female, Object-location.

BOOK B Grades 5–6
With more challenging categories and problems, Book B reviews the analogies taught in Book A and introduces eight more analogy categories including: Homonym, Part-whole, Worker-place, Degree, Sequence, Cause and effect, 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 text reviews the process for solving analogies and all problem types introduced in previous books. this edition introduces 10 new challenging analogies, including: Mythological, Action-meaning, Literary, Scientific, Historical, Worker-product, and more.

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