Strategies for supporting visual and kinesthetic learning styles in all parts of the writing process
1. Strategies for Supporting
Visual and Kinesthetic
Learning Styles in All Parts of
the Writing Process
LAUREN ROUSE, UNIV. CENTRAL FLORIDA,
RACHEL LARROWE AND HANNAH THORNBY,
DEPAUL UNIV.
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5. writing centers
learning by working with groups & other people
learning through speech and writing
learning through sound and music
SOCIAL
VERBAL
AURAL
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6. multi-literacy
centers
EMPLOY MULITSENSORY CHANNELS
using a “variety of visual, aural, spatial, and
kinesthetic approaches to tap into the
intellectual chaos that goes into writing”
START AT THE BEGINNING
know that all composing processes differ &
scaffold from there
KNOW THE BASICS
have basic understandings of different
modes and media for rhetorical
communication
7. "[moving] from a 'adapt your
practice for each student' mindset
to a 'adapt your practice so that it
better reaches all students in the
first place' mindset."
ALLISON HITT (2012)
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8. LITERATURE
BAZERMAN &
TINBERG
Writing takes a writer’s ideas
and “externalize[s] them
into an independent artifact
that can be examined,
revised, or otherwise
worked on by the writer,
collaborators, or other
people.”
UDL
"A way of thinking about
teaching and learning that
gives all students equal
opportunity to learn. At its
core, UDL means that a
teacher designs learning
experiences in flexible
ways to meet the needs of
individual learners"
HITT
"Developing a multimodal
toolkit involves developing
rhetorical strategies that
push against fixed
communicative interactions
and present more
opportunities for students.
The idea is not to max out all
sensory options but to
provide flexibility."
NORDLOF
"The first is that a goal for
tutoring becomes clear: to
help students achieve what
they could not do on their
own. The second is the
idea that the nature of
support the tutor provides
changes depending on the
circumstances."
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9. Scaffolding provides the metaphor to describe
how that development can be encouraged
through the use of cognitive and motivational
scaffolding techniques that help students develop
in ways that they could not do alone.
NORDLOF (2014), P. 59
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10. stationsVISUAL & BRAINSTORMING
with lauren
KINESTHETIC
with rachel
KINESTHETIC & REVISION
with hannah
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11. WHAT DID YOU LEARN
WHAT DO YOU STILL
WANT TO KNOW
discussion
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