Activate analogy skills with a straightforward exercise. Learners complete 10 analogies, using the bridge sentences provided as support while they determine word relationships.

Concepts

analogies, word associations, word meanings, word relationships

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Get your pupils' minds going by starting out the day with analogies
• Assign this worksheet for homework

Classroom Considerations

• The example analogy and bridge sentences don't actually match up, but they do get the idea of the exercise across effectively enough
• This is part of a series of analogy worksheets for middle school

Pros

• The bridge sentences will support learners as they work to fully understand the relationships between words; they can use this strategy later on as well
• An answer key is provided

Cons

• None

Common Core

L.5.5.a L.6.5.a L.7.5.a