Analogy Match-ups PDF Flash eCards Set 4

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 identification of parts of speech. Each full color set contains 30 cards. Suggested activities are designed to help students understand relationships between words that are synonyms and words that are antonyms. Each set consists of 60.

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.

Group Activity

Give one card to each student.
Have each student read their analogy card aloud .
After students have read their card ask them to find the person who has the match-up for their card.

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 cards to each student.
Have each student match-up the analogy cards.
Repeat until the students have successfully matched all cards.

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.