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VISUAL
Students with this strength can easily:
  • Recall what they see
  • Follow written or visual instructions
  • Learn by observation
Learn or Enjoy best by:
  • Using the computer or graphics
  • Performing visual puzzles
  • Looking at or designing maps, charts, or graphs
Reading Strategy:
  • Sight Methods
  • Dissimilar words
  • Silent reading
  • Words that are accompanied by pictures, slides, or even videos




AUDITORY
Students with this strength can easily:
  • Recall what they hear
  • Follow spoken instructions
  • Learn by listening and speaking
Learn or Enjoy best by:
  • Talking
  • Interviewing
  • Debating
  • Participating on a panel
  • Asking and answering questions
  • Memorizing
  • Giving oral reports
Reading Strategy:
  • Phonics
  • Choral reading
  • Listening to stories and/or books
  • Discussing stories
  • Reading orally





TACTILE
Students with this strength can easily:
  • Recall what they touch
  • Follow instructions that they write or touch
  • Learn by touching or manipulating objects
Learn or Enjoy best by:
  • Doodling
  • Sketching
  • Playing board games
  • Building models
  • Constructing dioramas or relief maps
  • Writing and/or tracing
Reading Strategy:
  • Writing or tracing methods
  • Playing games
  • Reading instructions and then making something





KINESTHETIC
Students with this strength can easily:
  • Recall their experiences
  • Follow instructions that they perform or rehearse
  • Learn by touching or manipulating objects
Learn or Enjoy best by:
  • Playing floor games
  • Assembling objects
  • Building models
  • Participating in fairs
  • Setting up experiments
  • Acting
  • Role-playing
  • Scavenger hunts
Reading Strategy:
  • Pantomiming
  • Acting in plays
  • Riding a stationary bike while listening to a book
  • Recording and reading
  • Reading instructions and then building or doing something



GLOBAL
Students with this strength can easily:
  • Make decisions based on emotions or intuition
  • Are spontaneous
  • Focus on creativity
  • Care less about being tidy and/or neat
Learn or Enjoy best by:
  • Information presented in an interesting or humorous story
  • Examples
  • Interesting materials
  • Group work or activities
Reading Strategy:
  • Holistic reading methods
  • Recorded books
  • Writing stories
  • Choral reading with books
  • Computer software
  • Audiovisual materials
  • Projects
  • Games




ANALYTIC
Students with this strength can easily:
  • Make decisions based on logic or common sense
  • Plan and organize very well
  • Focus on the details and facts
  • Like a tidy or neat environment
Learn or Enjoy best by:
  • Information presented in sequential steps
  • Rules and examples
  • Structured materials
  • Teacher or parent directed lessons
  • Clear goals and requirements
Reading Strategy:
  • Phonics (if auditory)
  • Programmed materials
  • Puzzles
  • Worksheets that are reinforced by strategies appropriate for global learners




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