Learning styles and classroom resources - Part two

Check your ideas with the ideas in the table.

Visual	Auditory	Kinaesthetic
The board or whiteboard	Discussions	3-D materials
Pictures and photographs	CDs/MP3s	Realia
Posters	Tapes	Puppets and dolls
Realia - real objects brought in from home	Video	Mime
Graphs	Radio	Role-play
Films & video	Television
Computers	Guest speakers
Gestures and mime
Role-play

Remember! Teaching aids should be BIG ,c o l o u r f u l, funny, and above all, memorable!

For auditory learners you should think about your pace of speech, volume, tone of voice, intonation and stress.

Each young learner is unique and we must find the combination of strategies that suits them best.

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You have looked at the learning resources that support different learning modalities. In the next section you will look at various activities that are good for different types of learners.

Classroom activities

It is important that we include a good variety of multi-sensory tasks in our lessons to help children learn more effectively.

In the Learning styles and classroom activities exercise below you will analyse some common classroom activities and decide the sensory activation.

Once you have finished, read the commentary on choosing activities to fit different learning styles in the Learning styles and classroom activities resource.

Exercise - Learning styles and classroom activities

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