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Description: Visual learners remember what was read or seen; don’t retain what they hear for very long; have vivid imaginations, use color; may think in pictures or may think in words; may be avid readers; facial expressions show their emotions; information may not exist for them if it is not seen or written down; remembers faces, but not names; likes written reports better than verbal ones; are sensitive to the ways things look or appear.
Hints for Visual Learners:
Take notes
Make and use flashcards for studying
Create graphs and diagrams that demonstrate key points
Actively review any photographs or diagrams in your textbook
Use visual metaphors and/or analogies to associate information
Write explanations down
Use color coded highlighting
Use illustrations to remember content
Organize your material
Use the computer to organize material and to create graphs, tables and charts
Review videos specific to the content you are studying
Adjustments – what can be done to help the visual learner?
Take out visual distraction – place him/her in as uncluttered an area as possible
Leave a frame of blank wall around visual displays
On a worksheet, put a heavy line around items to help pupil attend to one item at a time
Give him /her a big marker
Allow him to point if necessary – let him/her to touch the first letter of each word
Let him/her get one worksheet at a time, rather than handing him/her several papers at once. This also gives the child a purpose for moving about as he/she turns in his/her completed work and gets his/her next assignment.
Try not to stand in front of a cluttered background when instructing
Give him/her one step of an assignment at a time
Teaching Methods – how to plan to help the visual learner
Give lots of visual directions
Give demonstrations
Use matching games, charts and graphs
Use maps and teach the use of a legend
Use color coded systems
Use number lines and rulers to develop math concepts
Products for Visual Learners
Brochures
Charts
Posters
Technology Projects
Graphs
Information Tables
Timelines
Graph Organizers
Venn Diagrams
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