Analogies 1 Grades 7-8  E-mail this product to a friend

Analogies 1 is instructional material. It presents a step-by-step approach to analogy problem-solving that makes mastery of the techniques manageable for students. Strategies include creating "bridge sentences" as a tool for examining analogies, looking out for words with more than one meaning, solving 2-step analogies, and identifying various types of analogies. These techniques are taught in depth in Book 1 and are reviewed in Books 2 and 3.

Why teach analogies? Studying analogies helps students to sharpen reasoning ability, develop critical thinking, understand relationships between words and ideas, learn new vocabulary, and prepare for the SATs and for standardized tests. Each of the 3 books in this useful series consists of 3 parts written in a clear, conversational style with few technical terms. While the nature of the instructional material in all three books is similar, the amount of attention given to it—discussion, examples, and exercises—decreases as the level of the book increases. Quiz booklets with perforated pages, intended for photocopying, are available to test both vocabulary and analogy problem-solving skills.