Word Analogies: Multiple Choice and Open Responses

Complete five multiple-choice and five open-response analogies by identifying relationships between words.
Year levels
Year 3
Pages
1
File type
PDF

Updated Jul 25, 2021

Subject
Grammar, Vocabulary, Language Development, English
Resource types
Worksheets

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This Analogies Worksheet is a great way for students to practice identifying relationships between pairs of ideas. This worksheet can help students improve their critical thinking and problem solving skills.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify the relationship in a completed word pair
  • Apply the same relationship to a second pair
  • Generate a missing analogy term without answer choices

Teaching tips

  • Name the relationship in words before selecting or generating the missing term.
  • Have learners create a new analogy using one relationship type from the page.

Skills covered

  • Relational reasoning — one word-pair pattern transfers to another.
  • Semantic categorisation — category, function, part, and attribute links are compared.
  • Vocabulary generation — open items require an independently supplied term.

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Core concepts

Core concepts

  • Analogies
  • Word relationships
  • Reasoning

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