Builds vocabulary and reading comprehension skills! Grades: 6th - 8th
Subject: Language Arts
ISBN: 0-89455-697-5
Activities: 20 ThinkAnalogy® Puzzles is a fun, engaging program that helps students truly understand the basis of an analogy. These activities develop razor-sharp analogy, vocabulary, word analysis, and comprehension skills for the highest academic and test performance.
Methods
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 include kind of, part of, synonym of, antonym of, symbol of, product of, person who, something used to, degree of, property of.
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.
Features
- 20 activities per CD - 300 analogies per CD
- On-screen instructions, word definitions, and hints
- Saves unfinished games
- Printable student data