Are you trying to figure out how to teach analogies in your speech therapy sessions? Teaching analogies in speech therapy can help improve language comprehension, verbal expression, and cognitive skills, so it’s great to focus on them when our kids have trouble with them.
How to Teach Analogies
The ways that I like to teach analogies in my therapy sessions include:
- Providing Concrete Examples Providing concrete examples helps students learn better. For example, you can show tangible objects when working on analogies. If you have toy animals and food, you can give examples like “A bee is to honey as a cow is to milk.” If you don’t have tangible objects, using picture examples that allow kids to visualize them will work great, too.
- Using Visual Aids This goes hand in hand with providing concrete examples. You can use visual aids in the form of pictures or objects. Once a child has mastered analogies with pictures, you can move onto written analogies only.
- Repetition We all know that repetition is the key to learning something new, so this is no different. Providing repeated exposure to analogies will help your kids internalize their understanding of them.
- Comparing and Contrasting Another way to help teach analogies is to have kids compare and contrast different items. When your kids do this, it will help them naturally identify relationships between the items being compared, helping them to know how one thing relates to another.
Analogy Worksheets
Worksheets are great to use when helping to teach analogies in your speech therapy sessions because you can use the visual aids with pictures or make it more difficult with just word-based analogies. If you need some no prep analogy worksheets, you can take a look at mine! They offer flexibility in difficulty levels, with options for selecting from either three or two answer choices with the picture analogies or answering word analogies in multiple choice format or fill-in-the-blank-format.
You can find these worksheets available for purchase here on my store’s website or through Teacher’s Pay Teacher. These work great when helping to teach analogies, and other SLPs feel the same way, too!
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