Best Practices in Action, Using Analogies to Enhance Background Knowledge

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This program demonstrates how to use analogies to build students' background knowledge of academic subjects, explaining why teaching students to identify similarities and differences by creating an...

This program demonstrates how to use analogies to build students' background knowledge of academic subjects, explaining why teaching students to identify similarities and differences by creating analogies enhances their understanding of and ability to use knowledge. Classroom scenes demonstrate how a teacher with a diverse class of third graders introduces the concept of analogy to the class and engages the students in thinking of their social studies content in terms of similarities and differences by using analogies. The program shows how the teacher leads the class to an understanding of analogies and helps them apply their understanding to their current unit of study and explains how getting students to create analogies helps them connect lessons to each other or to material in other subjects.

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