Analogies develop thinking skills by reinforcing the
ability to see relationships through comparisons and generalizations. Each set
matches one card to another with the same relative meaning to form a pair. Expand
use to focus on similarities and identifications of parts of speech. Suggested
activities are designed to help your students understand relationships between
words that are synonyms and words that are antonyms. Set consists of 60
analogies.
Readiness
Activity ·Give an example of a synonym (antonym in the
case of antonym match-up). ·Suggest words and ask for other examples of
synonyms. Level 1 ·Give one analogy to each student. ·Have each student read their analogy aloud. ·After students have read their analogy ask them
to find the person who has the match-up for their analogy. Individual
Activity ·Give an example of a synonym (antonym in the
case of antonym match-up). ·Suggest words and ask for other examples of
synonyms/antonyms. ·Give four Match-Up analogies to each student.
·Have each student match-up the analogies. ·Repeat until the students have successfully
matched analogies. BEHAVIORAL
OBJECTIVES ·Students will be able to select appropriate
synonyms to complete synonym-based analogies. ·Students will be able to select appropriate
antonyms to complete antonym-based analogies.
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