This document discusses visual learning styles and strategies for visual learners. It describes characteristics of visual learners such as preferring to see things through pictures, diagrams, and body language. It provides examples of materials that can help visual learners like movies, flashcards, and rebus stories which combine images and words. It offers tips for visual learners such as taking notes, underlining main ideas, visualizing spelling and math problems, and using computers to write.
2. Characteristics of Visual Learners Scans everything; wants to see things. Enjoys maps, pictures, diagrams, and color. Needs to see the teacher’s body, the language or the facial expression to understand. Visual learners have strong visualization skills. They can look up (often up to the left) an "see" the information invisibly written or drawn.
3. Answerwith short and incompletesentences. Doodlein a classinstruction and tendtobe a daydream. Tends to prefer sitting at the front of the classroom to avoid visual obstructions. Is an reader and an observer. Finds something to watch if they are bored.
4. Materials to Be Used With Visual Learners For visual learners, movies are very important because you can learnEnglishwatching videos and hearthelanguage. You can alsotranslate a movie, and whileyouseethemovie in Englishyouhavethetranslation in yourownlanguage.
5. Flash cards are anothermethod of learningEnglish. You can seethethingthatappear in the flash card, you can translatethewordintoyourlanguage and alsoyou can learnthename of thatthing in English.
7. Teaching Strategies for Visual Learners The Visual Learner must look at what he has to learn. For him, the eyes are very important because he has to see the pictures or the teacher when talk to learn English. He has to use visual materialslikegraphs, charts ortables.
9. The student have to learn also how to take notes. Whit the notes, the student when have an exam he can remember the information of he’s notes. Some people have photographicmemory, and they can remembereverything.
10. Student Tips for Visual Learners The visual learners use their eyes to learn new information. They had easy way to make mind pictures because their ability to see and imagine is special. When they take notes, they underline the main words and the idea.
11. Reading When visual learner read a new text, they try to understand the text with that words that they know.
12. Writing They underline ideas before writing for the main idea. When they had to write, they use computers They also make a draft and recopy, when this is good. And they are in a test underline the main idea in the question.
13. Spelling Theyclose the eyes and can see the words spelling. They make a pictures of the letters to put read them. And when is done they check it.
14. Math They visualize the problem, but they have to make pictures of that on a scratch paper. When it’s finish and understand what happen, they write the problem.