Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...

This slideshow focuses on analogy including defining it, discussing its purpose, and providing two literary examples. W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc

Analogies are useful when communicating ideas that a reader wouldn't otherwise understand. This tutorial explains how to use analogy in writing.

Read about the history of the use of analogies, beginning in the Middle Ages. Discusses analogies in terms of logic, theology, and metaphysics. Very informative.

Defines analogy. Also explains the reasoning behind the multiple levels of comparisons within an analogy. Includes examples and quotes from famous authors.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn to find the meaning of words through analogy and other word relationships. L.9-10.5 Fig Lang/nuances

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on strategies for using context clues and analogies to determine the meaning of words, sentences, and paragraphs.

Analogy questions ask you to identify a situation that is analogous to the one described in the passage. Principle questions ask you to identify the principle that is at work. This guide offers tips on how to recognize and respond to...

This game will increase the player's understanding of different types of analogies. It has three difficulty levels.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on using a combination of reference materials and analyzing context clues and analogies to improve your knowledge of new words.

This is a glossary entry for the term "Analogy" including the definition, an example, and links to more information.

These four self-scoring analogy tests include a number of open ended analogies to challenge your logic skills.

Informational site that provides the definition for and examples of analogy.

Describes different writing strategies to be used with analogies to help get a point across. Gives three good examples.

A six-part learning module with links to videos, slides, images, and a website about analogies.

Play a Jeopardy-type game to test your skill at understanding analogies or word relationships. The game can be played by one or two players.

This page uses a mouse and cheese analogy to show the relationships involved in electricity through currents and charges. Among the topics covered by the analogy are voltage, resistance and electromagnetism.

This is a printable game where students are given a sheet of analogies with sets of two pairs of words. The last word in the second pair is missing and students must study the relationship between the words in the first pair to determine...

Twenty analogies providing three words and asking students to think of the fourth. Answers can be checked and compared to the suggestions provided.

Complete fifteen sentence analogies by choosing the answer that best completes the word relationships. Submit answers when finished to see how many are correct.

[Free Registration/Login Required] I created this presentation so that at the end of the presentation there are three analogies given and the teacher or students could discuss, or the teacher could then at this time have students make up...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Let this brief warm up activity get your students going with analogies.

Excellent and comprehensive collection of worksheets for students' grammar skills. Includes exercises on complete sentences, analogies, synonyms/antonyms, and more.

This lesson introduces analogy.