Word Analogies: Multiple Choice and Open Responses
Complete five multiple-choice and five open-response analogies by identifying relationships between words.

- Year groups
- Year 4 (Key Stage 2)
- Pages
- 1
- File type
- Subject
- Grammar, Vocabulary, Language Development, English
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- England expectations
- Official curriculum expectation · Comprehension
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About this resource
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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National Curriculum in England
National Curriculum in England expectations
England expectations
- Official curriculum expectation · Comprehension — develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by: discussing and clarifying the meanings of words, linking new meanings to known vocabulary
Core concepts
- Analogies
- Word relationships
- Reasoning
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