Think Analogies B1 -> NOW ON SALE

Learning to connect words and relationships. Builds vocabulary and reading comprehension skills!

Grade(s): 6-8
Subject: Language Arts
ISBN: 0-89455-792-0
Activities: 49
Pages: 56

Think Analogies® clearly, easily, and effectively teaches students how to analyze and classify analogies by relationship, category, and structure.

ThinkAnalogy® Puzzles Software helps students develop razor-sharp analogy, vocabulary, and word analysis skills for the highest academic and test performance.

Methods
Both books begin with an exploration of word relationships. Students classify word groups, form pairs of related items, then identify types of analogous relationships and classify them. Finally, they select and supply words and word pairs to complete analogies. Book B1 also teaches how to read and understand analogy structures, describe analogous relationships, and make analogies from word lists.

Test Preparation
Think Analogies Books and ThinkAnalogy Puzzles Software prepare students for higher-level vocabulary and reading challenges and for state and other standardized educational assessments including:

• Stanford Achievement Test™ (SAT/9)
• Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT)
• Preliminary SAT (PSAT)
• Woodcock-Johnson® Tests of Cognitive Ability (WJ-R®)
• Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC)
• Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT-7)
• Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT®)
• and many more!

Teaching Support
Includes clear explanations of different types of analogies, answers, and a fun reward game.

Methods (Software)
For each activity, students analyze 30 potential analogy pairs, evaluating word meanings and relationships to find the best matches. Then they classify each analogy by type—a process that's vital to understanding an analogous relationship.

Analogy types in all grade levels include kind of, part of, synonym of, antonym of. Grades 6-8 and 9-12+ levels also include symbol of, product of, person who, something used to, degree of, and property of.

Features (software)
• 20 activities per CD - 300 analogies per CD
• On-screen instructions, word definitions, and hints
• Saves unfinished games
• Printable student data