Visual Learning Style
learn through seeing...
- Highlight important points in text
- Use books on tapes
- Use a tape recorder to tape lectures, presentations, directions, etc.
- Learn to use text glossary, indexes, appendices, chapter summaries, etc.
- Preview texts
Traita
- Mind sometimes strays during verbal activities
- Observe rather than acts or talks
- Likes to read
- Usually a good speller
- Memorizes by seeing graphics or pictures
- Not too distractible
- Finds verbal instruction difficult
- Has good handwriting
- Remembers faces
- Uses advanced planning
- Doodles
- Quiet by nature
- Meticulous, neat in appearance
- Notices details
Habits
- Organize work and living space to avoid distractions.
- Sit in the front of the room to avoid distraction and away from doors or windows where the action occurs.
- Sit away from wall maps or bulletin boards.
- Use neatly organized or typed material.
- Use visual association, imagery, written repetition, flashcards, and clustering strategies for improved memory.
- Reconstruct images in different ways try different spatial arrangements and take advantage of blank spaces on the page.
- Use note pads, Post-Its, todo lists, and other forms of reminders.
- Use organizational format outlining for recording notes.
- Use underlining and highlighting in your notes in different colors, symbols, flow charts, graphs, or pictures.
- Practice turning visual cues into words as you prepare for exams.
- Allow sufficient time for planning and recording thoughts when doing problem solving tasks.
- Use test preparation strategies emphasizing information organization, visual encoding, and recall.
- Participate actively in class or group activities.
- Develop written or pictorial outlines of responses before answering essay questions.
Reading
Likes description; sometimes stops reading to stare into space and imagine the scene; intense concentration.Handwriting
It tends to be a good, particularly when young; spacing and size are good; appearance is important.Advice
- Take notes, pictures, graphs, and charts.
- Use flashcards and highlight key details.
- Sit close to the teacher to watch their faces and gestures.
- Take notes or make lists as you listen to directions.
- Carefully check the instructions written on the chalkboard and handouts.
- As the teacher lectures, pay attention to visual aids such as drawings, maps, graphs, charts - transparency, posters, films, and books.
- Imagine pictures of the information you are supposed to remember.
- Use color coding to convey important information.
- When possible, read assignments silently.
- Maintain class notes and outlines of important information to study.
- Try to read and study in a well-lit, quiet place.
- Record homework assignments in a date book, on a notepad, or a specially designed assignment sheet.
- Keep a notepad with you at all times.
- Write everything for frequent and quick visual review.
Spelling Advice
- See the word – close your eyes.
- Make a picture – then read from your picture.
- Write the word – match the picture.
- Check your work immediately.
Reading Advice
- Use sight words, flashcards, note cards, and experience stories; don’t try to sound words out, but determine if the new word or words has words you already know.
- For example, the “systematic” has the word “system,” “stem,” and “mat” within it.
- You are a “look-and-say” learner.
- Look at a word carefully; then say it.