Primary Analogies, introduce young students to sophisticated thinking skills as they learn to read. To introduce the idea of solving analogies, a pre-analogy section gives practice finding similarities, catagorizing, making comparisons, and using Venn diagrams. Exercises continue with picture-to-picture analogies. Two pictures that have a special relationship are connected by a line in a frame containing six pictures. Students choose two other pictures from the frame that have the same relationship and connect them with a line. As students begin to learn the letters of the alphabet, the analogies include them, combining letters and pictures or symbols, and progressing to analogies using only words-easy, phonetically regular words as well as words students meet in their reading and in their daily lives. In the culminating All-Star level, students make up their own analogies, choosing from labeled pictures in a box and telling, in writing, how the pictures go together. Primary Analogies groups analogous relationships into 5 catagories: descriptive, comparative, categorical, serial, and casual, with 3 levels of difficulty within each catagory. This is recommended for Grades K-3, and is non-reproducible. |
