Analogy Card Games

Teach analogies in a hierarchy and help students learn word relationships.When they master the last activity, they'll know ten ways to think about word meanings.

Students learn to discriminate word relationships with this hierarchy of activities and games.The three card decks are arranged in order of difficulty by grade level.Each card deck contains 52 partial analogies (or 26 complete analogies when pairs of cards are matched by the same type of word relationship) and two wild cards.The cards within each deck are arranged in order of vocabulary difficulty level.

Students match and complete analogies based on ten types of word relationships:
• Antonyms
• A Kind Of
• A Part Of
• Description
• Homophones
• Location
• Same Category
• Sequence
• Synonyms
• Tells the Use

Use the cards in this hierarchy of games and activities:
• Classify the Partial AnalogyMatch partial analogies (e.g., trunk is to tree) to the relationship between the two words on the card (A Part Of).
• Match the Partial Analogy CardsFind cards with analogies based on the same word relationship (e.g., trunk is to tree, and mane is to horse are examples of "A Part Of" word relationships).
• Memory GamePlay Memory using partial analogy cards that can be combined to make complete analogies.
• Complete the AnalogySelect a partial analogy card, identify the type of word relationship the card shows, and complete the analogy either verbally or in written form.
• Card Game for Analogy CompletionEarn points by completing as many analogies as possible until all of the analogies in the deck have been completed.
• Read and CompleteThe cards are sorted into pairs of complete analogies.The complete analogies are read, leaving one word out (fire is to hot as ice is to _____).The student must verbally fill in the blank to complete the analogy.
• Pick FourIdentify a group of four words (word lists are provided in the instructions) which could be used to form an analogy.
• Go FishAsk for cards by stating the desired word relationship e.g., "Do you have a card that has synonyms?" or "Do you have a card that goes with kind is to nice?"