Grade(s): 3-5
Activities: 48
Pages: 56
Series: Think Analogies

Think Analogies® clearly, easily, and effectively 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. Students sharpen their reasoning skills as they analyze the subtleties of language and relationship presented in analogies. Analogies are useful tools for developing students' grasp of concepts and ideas in subject areas. As students learn to understand simple word analogies, they move towards understanding more complex analogous relationships presented in literature, science, history etc.

Because of the importance of analogous reasoning to learning analogies are a key component of many assessment and ability tests.

Think Analogies® begins with an exploration of words and relationships. Students classify words and groups of things into general categories and form pairs of related items. Next they identify and classify types of analogous relationships. They practice classifying kinds of analogies and selecting words and word pairs to complete them (this is the question format used in most testing). Finally, they select and supply words and word pairs to complete analogies.

Also available in a software format as Think Analogy Puzzles A1

Table of Contents:

• Synonyms
• Antonyms
• Part of
• Kind of
• Something used to
• Someone who

Awards:

• Mom's Choice Awards Silver Medal for Excellence
• Learning® Magazine Recommended Resource for Successful Teaching

Reviews:
"Covers the whole process from the beginning of an analogy to the complex use of it. Very useful for transitioning from basic classifying and categorizing to analogous reasoning." -Joan M. Smith, Monterey, CA

"Think Analogies A1...teaches how to approach analogies. Many books give analogies for the student to practice solving analogies, but they don't teach how to THINK in an analogous way." -Chris, Santa Clara, CA

"My...daughter really enjoyed using Thinking Analogies...examples and clear explanations make it easy to understand." -Florence, Phoenix, AZ

"Other analogy books assume too much, but you've put everything in plain English and filled in all the gaps. Thanks to your books, my son is mastering analogies." -Christine, Wenham, MA