Baker Elementary School

VISUAL

Students with this strength can easily:

Enjoy/learn best by:

Learn to read best with:

Recall what they see
Follow written or drawn instructions
Learn by observing

Using computer graphics;
performing visual puzzles;
looking at or designing
maps, charts, graphs

Sight methods, dissimilar
words, silent reading,
words accompanied by pictures, slides or videos

AUDITORY

Students with this strength can easily:

Enjoy/learn best by:

Learn to read best with:

Recall what they hear
Follow spoken instructions
Learn by listening and
speaking

Talking, interviewing,
debating, participating
on a panel, asking and
answering questions,
memorizing, making oral reports

Phonics, choral reading,
by listening to stories
and recordings of
books, discussing stories,
reading orally

TACTILE

Students with this strength can easily:

Enjoy/learn best by:

Learn to read best with:

Recall what they touch
Follow instructions they
write or touch
Learn by touching or 
manipulating objects

Doodling, sketching, playing
board games, building
models, constructing
dioramas and relief maps
writing, tracing

Writing/tracing methods,
playing games or reading
instructions, then making something

KINESTHETIC

Students with this strength can easily:

Enjoy/learn best by:

Learn to read best with:

Recall their experiences
Follow instructions that
they perform or rehearse
Learn by touching or 
manipulating objects

Playing floor games,
assembling objects,
building models, participating
in fairs, setting up experiments,
acting, role-playing, scavenger
hunts

Pantomiming, acting in plays,
riding a stationary bike
while listening to a book,
recording and reading,
reading instructions and
then building/doing
something

GLOBAL

Students with this strength can easily:

Enjoy/learn best by:

Learn to read best with:

Make decisions based on
emotions/intuition
Are spontaneous
Focus on creativity 
Care less about tidiness

Information presented in
an interesting or humorous
story, examples, interesting
materials, group work,
and activities

Holistic reading methods,
such as recorded books,
story writing, choral
reading with books, computer
software, audiovisual materials, projects
and games

ANALYTIC

Students with this strength can easily:

Enjoy/learn best by:

Learn to read best with:

Make decisions based on
logic/common sense
Plan and organize well
Focus on details and facts 
Like a tidy environment

Information presented in
sequential steps, with rules
and examples, structure
materials, teacher-directed
lessons, clear goals and
requirements

Phonics (if auditory),
programmed materials, puzzles,
some worksheets-reinforced
by strategies appropriate for
global learners