Learning about Analogies

An analogy is a kind of puzzle.  To solve it, you look at the first pair of words and try to identify how they are related.  Then you look for the same relationship in the second pair of words.  Here are some types of relationships between words: opposites (courage:fear); part to whole (branch:tree); category and example (doctor:pediatrician); word or person and what it does (dog:bark); word and what it describes (fragrant:rose).  We took a look at the analogies created by fifth graders and tried to help them analyze the word relationships that they had created.

Comments

[Mrs. P]

Would your mind telling me the grade level of your students? I am impressed by the depth of their thoughts and their writing skill. My webwriters range in age, from 5th to 8th. I am assuming your writers are in high school. My own students were wondering the answer to this is well.

[MaryAnnRicketson]

Hello Mrs. P.,

These students are ninth graders and when they are motivated, they have a great deal to say. Thanks for checking out our blog. Next week they should be posting poems about paradox, so I hope you check back.

Ms. R.