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Most people have a combination of learning styles but one is usually
stronger.
Here is a basic summary of each
style:
Auditory: mainly learns through
listening to directions, takes notes from speeches, likes talking on the phone,
sounds out words phonetically, remembers verbal
directions.
Visual: learns through looking at charts,
pictures, diagrams, movies, illustrated procedures, remembers from seeing rather
than listening.
Kinesthetic: learns by doing and moving,
does an experiment by touching and feeling the materials, learns language by
getting together for a conversation with a partner, gestures while speaking,
uses expressive language.
By understanding your child's learning style it
is easier to impart a new concept in a way that can be heard, seen, or
experienced first hand.
Here is a short exercise on
learning to count that gives you an idea of these different modes of
learning.
The setting could be a classroom. One student at a time marches
across the room while other students watch.
The moving student and all
class members count and clap one number for each march step. So, 10 march steps
would be counting to 10.
Here is how the learning styles break down
with this exercise:
The visual learners are seeing
the student take 10 steps while counting to ten.
The
auditory learners hear the numbers counted out loud 1 - 10, and
hear the 10 claps.
The kinesthetic learner claps one
time, and moves one march step per number, experiencing the 10 steps by
moving.
In this one lesson each of the learning styles has been
accommodated.
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