TY - ADVS AU - D'Arcangelo,Marcia AU - Hoverman,Lynn ED - Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development TI - The best practices in action: using analogies to enhance background knowledge PY - 2006/// CY - Alexandria, VA PB - ASCD KW - Learning KW - Analogy KW - Metaphor N1 - Additional teacher comments (5 min.) and support for using analogies in PDF files that accessible by computer; Title from title screen; Editors, Gerald Goldman, Ron Simon ; camera, Page McCarty ; sound, Derek St. Onge N2 - This program demonstrates the use of research-based instructional startegies. Specially see how using analogies in helps students learn to identify similarities and differences, stimulates students' higher-order thinking processes and leads students to see relationships between dissimilar pairs of elements and increase their understanding of new information ER -