Understanding Analogies 2 - Sentence Association Quiz Game

by Speech Club Publications

Price: 375 points or $3.75 USD

Subjects: games,receptiveLanguage,expressiveLanguage

Grades: 0

Description: Understanding Analogies - Sentence Association Critical Thinking activities for Semantic Development The ability to understand and complete an analogy is an important critical thinking skill. Analogies promote logical reasoning skills, semantic development and a greater comprehension of complex information. They serve as mental models that help to conceptualize comparative relationships as well as abstract concepts. Analogies build on prior knowledge and expand vocabulary development. Finish the Sentence – A Sentence Bridge Quiz Game uses a sentence format and key word pictures as a frame to help compare and connect a set of words. Students complete each sentence then explain the connection. This quiz game is STEP 2 in a bundle of 4 quiz games organized to provide a series of scaffolds or “thinking steps” that lead to solving analogies by understanding word relationships. The quiz game requires players to answer questions in order to win outer space points: Saturn 100 points, Venus 200 points, Jupiter 300 points, Mercury 400 points, Neptune 500 points, and Earth 600 points.