Triveni Goswami Vernal
(Registered Special Educator CRR A64010)

The previous blog touched upon the various Learning Styles (Visual, Auditory, Read/Writing, Kinesthetic, Multi-modal) of individuals and how that can have a significant influence on the way one teaches to maximize the learning potential of the learners.
This blog will look at the kind of activities that can help augment learning for individuals with a pre-dominant learning style.

ACTIVITIES FOR VISUAL LEARNING STYLE:
1) Mind Maps
2) Flash Cards
3) Charts and Diagrams
4) Using Colour Coding to highlight passages.
5) Animations
6) Videos
7) Puzzles
8) Activities and Games focusing on Visual Processing Skills (Visual Scanning, Visual Discrimination, Visual Memory, Visual Spatial skills etc)
  
ACTIVITIES FOR AUDITORY LEARNING STYLE:
1) Listening
2) Speaking
3) Read Aloud Books
4) Podcasts
5) Lectures
6) Verbal repetition of things being spoken
7) Listening Games
8) Making Rhymes
9) Activities and Games focusing on Auditory Processing Skills (Auditory Memory, Auditory Discrimination etc).

ACTIVITIES FOR READ/WRITE LEARNING STYLE:
1) Write down the main points
2) Rephrase what they listen to, in their own words.
3) Write down instructions, to follow better.
4) Translate Visuals into text.
5) Highlight information deemed important and summarize each point /paragraph in their own words.
6) Make lists.
7) Read additional materials and make notes.
8) Make extensive notes and review them.
9) Activities and Games focusing on Reading and Writing such as Scrabble, Word Games, Creative Writing, Stoy writing, Sentence construction, Rhyming games, Charades, Pictionary etc.

ACTIVITIES FOR KINESTHETIC LEARNING STYLE:
1) Physical movements.
2) Hands-on activities.
3) Using manipulatives (blocks, beads, models etc) while studying.
4) Learning by Doing (a lot of touching and feeling objects, textural objects to understand concepts).
5) Model Making (Volcano, Life Cycle of rain etc).
6) Science Experiments (Life cycle of Plants, Photosynthesis etc).
7) Art and Craft
8) Teaching Math through manipulatives
9) Role Playing
10)Drama
11)  Dance and Movement
12) Sports
13) Going on Field Trips
14) Real-time learning
15) Using Fidget toys to focus.
16) Finger Movement Games etc.

ACTIVITIES FOR MULTI-MODAL LEARNING STYLES:
Individuals who have a Multi-Modal Learning style, adopt a particular learning style on the basis of their context. Hence, they can adopt a mix of the various activities mentioned for each learning style.

Thus, we see that as teachers/caregivers, if we are aware of the particular learning style of an individual, we can adapt our teaching methods to attune to his/her learning style and that can truly help them understand, process and retain the information, better.
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Author Dr.Triveni Goswami Vernal

Dr.Triveni Goswami Vernal is a Registered Special Educator (CRR: A64010), a Psychologist and an Expressive Arts Therapy Practitioner (UNESCO-CID). She is an Avaz Certified Educator and Certified in Dyslexia Teacher Training. She is also an art educator for children with additional needs.

“Colorful Gourd”
Acrylic on Watercolour Paper
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