Category Analogies

Have your child write the relationship in one or two words above each analogy before choosing. Cross out bank words as they are used. Check with the answer key.

Complete category analogies that pair a member with its group, like granite and rock. An analogy shows that two word pairs share a relationship. In a category analogy, one word names a member of a group. The directions on the page read: Read each analogy and find the group or member. Then, complete it with a word from the word bank. Two words are extra. The page opens with a worked example, and the answer key shows every answer.

Yes, both. We made it for 5th Grade analogies, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Besides synonyms and antonyms, 5th graders meet cause and effect (rain is to puddles), degree (warm is to boiling), member and group (robin is to bird), part to whole and tool and use. Naming the relationship is the key step.

In a degree analogy, one word is a stronger or weaker form of the other, like damp and soaked. The second pair must change by the same amount: happy is to ecstatic.

CCSS L.5.5.C asks students to use the relationship between particular words to understand each word better. Analogies practice exactly that kind of reasoning and build word knowledge at the same time.

Yes. All four analogies sheets have an answer key that also names each relationship.