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Can anyone recommend a book or website with analogies for DD to do? She loves them and is always asking me to do them with her. I have poked around on the net and find that the kid ones seem to mostly be too easy (for instance, she got all these instantly--http://www.quia.com/cb/7146.html) but the adult/upper grades ones are out of reach due to her still-limited vocabulary. Something where the relationship is tricky but the vocab is still early middle school level or below would be perfect.

anyone have these?

http://www.brightkidsworld.com/Mind...s_for_Kids_p/mwa710.htm?1=1&CartID=0

The Critical Thinking "Building Thinking Skills" series has some analogies, if I remember correctly. I haven't tried those Mindware ones, but I would bet they're pretty good.

After running some quick Google searches I came up with this list of web resources (I can't vouch for all of them):

edHelper.com (pay site, $19.99 US per year)
EnglishForEveryone.org
Freeology.com
movableteacher.com
RHL School (enter "analogies" in the search box)
Scholastic
Steck-Vaughn (I think that first match is a sample page, but if you like it you might follow up and buy more from the series)
Super Teacher Worksheets

Playing "Reader's Digest Super Word Power" might be a fun way to help her increase her vocabulary so that she can access the higher-level analogies. Both of my kids loved playing it, and I'm pretty sure you can find free downloads.

Wow--thanks! You have awesome Google-fu, Iucounu. The low-intermediate ones on this page http://www.englishforeveryone.org/Topics/Analogies.htm will be great for her, I think.


I will look for this. She would benefit from improving her vocabulary (ah, the reading lessons that COULD have been...) because it limits her reading comprehension, but she doesn't enjoy vocab games as much.