Analogies Activities

Valentine Analogies
Reading/Writing Read the following poem together. Discuss the analogies and ask your students to come up with more analogies.

Valentine Blues

by Heidi Bee Roemer

Like a bed without a pillow,
Like a chair without a leg.
Like a boy without his puppy,
Like a hen without her egg.

Like a hot dog without ketchup,
Like a sneeze without a tissue –
When you're gone, the day
seems long.
O Valentine, I miss you!

Hey Diddle, Diddle! Generating Rhymes for Analogy-Based Phonics Instruction
In this lesson students will practice matching rhyming words using picture cards and apply phonological awareness, hearing rhyme, to analogy-based phonics (i.e., an ability to decode unknown words by identifying words with similar visual structure). Students will also use online resources to increase phonological awareness through rhyme.

Vocab/Word Knowledge: Awesome Analogies!
Have your students practice their knowledge of analogies using these interactive challenge questions.

Building Vocabulary Using Analogies
In this lesson students will learn how to build their vocabulary by using analogies to help them learn the meanings of grade-appropriate words.