SSAT Preparation

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Analogies: Concept Connections: Level A-F:

(Levels A-F; 32- to 48-page Student Books, 81/2" x 11"; 16- to 24-page Teacher's Guides, 81/2" x 11")

A beginner's level book. Very useful for start up. Order all volumes from Level A-F and the teacher's guide.

Recognizing, completing, and generating analogies in various categories: classification, synonym, antonym, characteristic family, function-location, part-whole, object-user, object-use, objects used together, occupation-location, sequence, degree, cause-effect.


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Primary Analogies: by Gae Brunner, Jean Schoenlank, Marianne Williams, Teri Wiss, Ridgewood, NJ Public Schools

Recommended as a basic preparatory material in analogies for those students who had no previous exposure to analogies.

This pioneering series takes advantage of primary students' abilities, teaching them to be both problem solvers and independent thinkers. Primary Analogies, curriculum developed by teachers in the Ridgewood, NJ, Public Schools, transforms the informal analogous thinking that your students do into a focused and systematic process. Each book begins with a pre-analogy section that gives practice in finding similarities, in categorizing, in making comparisons, and in using Venn Diagrams. Books then group

analogic relationships into five categories: descriptive, comparative, categorical, serial, and causal, with three levels of difficulty within each category. Exercises begin with picture-to-picture analogies. As students begin to learn the letters of the alphabet, the analogies include them, combining letters and pictures or symbols, and progressing to analogies using only words-easy, phonetically regular words as well as words students meet in their reading and in their daily lives. Students make up their own analogies in the culminating All-Star level.

Ridgewood Analogies: George Libonate, Jr., Gae Brunner, Deborah Burde, Marianne

Williams, Teri Wiss, Ridgewood, NJ Public Schools

Recommended as an introductory material in analogies for middle grade (4-6) student.

This innovative series is based on the analogies curriculum Ridgewood, New Jersey, teachers have been using with their elementary and middle-school students for the past ten years. It teaches students to think analogically which means that they learn to make connections and use information and skills to identify relationships. Students learn how to solve five different kinds of analogies that exemplify five different kinds of relationships: descriptive, comparative, categorical, serial, and causal. Within each category, there are four increasingly difficult levels of : novice, apprentice, masters, and super masters. In the most challenging level, students create their own analogies.

Analogies 1,2, and 3: Arthur Liebman:

These three books series is recommended for SSAT exam Grade 5-8.

This analogies series helps students develop critical thinking and sharpen reasoning ability, understand relationships between words and ideas, learn new vocabulary, and prepare for standardized tests. Part 1 of each book contains step-by-step instructional material, Part 2 presents analogy problems, and Part 3 contains groups of alphabetized and defined words that are some of the most difficult vocabulary used in the analogies. There are quiz booklets with perforated pages, intended for photocopying, for all three workbooks.

Vocabulary from Classical Roots: Norma Fifer, Nancy Flowers

Highly Recommended for SSAT vocabulary exam for grade level 5-8.

Vocabulary from Classical Roots is an outstanding series that teaches junior and senior high school students words derived from the most important Greek and Latin roots. Every lesson has at least fifteen words derived from two or more classical roots, grouped thematically for ease in learning. Because students learn the related forms and multiple definitions of many words, they increase their vocabularies by far more than the approximately 240 principal words. Literary, historical, and geographical references in many of the illustrative sentences and exercises help students become more culturally literate while improving their vocabularies. Writing is integrated with vocabulary study since lessons includes suggestions for creative writing or expository writing using words from the lessons.

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