3rd Grade · Vocabulary · L.3.5.B, L.3.5
Analogies Lesson Plan for 3rd Grade
A ready-to-teach analogies lesson for 3rd Grade, built around reading an analogy as is to and as, and finishing analogies about tools, animal homes and babies, opposites, same meaning words, workers and colors. Print the plan, print the practice pages, and you are set.
Approximately 47 minutes
Learning objective
- Finish analogies about tools, animals, workers and colors
- Solve opposite and same meaning analogies
- Name the relationship in an analogy
Materials
- Finish the Analogy, Tool and Job
- Animal and Home Analogies
- Animal and Baby Analogies
- Opposites Analogies
- Same Meaning Analogies
- Worker and Workplace Analogies
- Pencils, and whiteboard space for the modeled examples
Lesson steps
1. Build the background (5 min)
Introduce analogies in plain language and connect it to a book the class already knows. Write the key term where students can see it all lesson. For 3rd Grade, one clear sentence beats a full definition.
2. Read aloud and think aloud (I do) (10 min)
Read a short passage aloud. Stop twice and narrate your own thinking about analogies: what you noticed in the text and what made you notice it. Students are learning the move, not the answer.
3. Guided practice (we do) (12 min)
Read a second passage together. This time students find the evidence and you record it. Push every answer back to the text with "what words told you that?"
4. Independent practice (you do) (15 min)
Hand out "Finish the Analogy, Tool and Job". Students read and answer on their own. Circulate and ask individuals to point to the line in the text that supports their answer.
5. Share and close (5 min)
Two or three students share an answer and the evidence behind it. Restate analogies one final time in the students' own words, not yours.
Check for understanding
Collect the practice pages and sort them into three piles: fluent, developing, and not yet. Any student in the third pile needs analogies retaught in a small group before the class moves on.
Differentiation
Extra support. Students who stall: pull them into a small group and rebuild analogies with concrete materials or a simpler text before asking for the written work again. Do not send the page home as homework, it will just rehearse the misunderstanding.
Extension. Students who finish early: ask them to write their own analogies problem for a partner to solve, then check the partner's work. Creating a problem is harder than solving one and it surfaces whether they really understand analogies.
Skills covered in this lesson
Analogies practice
