How To Help With Homework: Have your kids create songs will help them better remember it. Have them
visual representations of the material they’re supposed record themselves explaining the material, so that
to learn. This can be charts, diagrams, figures, maps, they can listen to the recordings whenever needed. If
and timelines. Other useful tools include color-coded they have a difficult time understanding something,
flashcards, sticky notes, and folders. If they have a hard explain it to them orally. Since auditory learners are
time understanding something, show them how it’s highly sensitive to auditory stimuli, have classical or
done instead of telling them how to do it. Since visual instrumental music playing in the background when
learners often get distracted from too many visual they study.
stimuli, it’s important to keep their study space neat
and clutter-free.
Auditory Learners
Reading/Writing Learners
How They Learn: Some kids process new information
by reading or writing about it. A sign that your kids
How They Learn: Auditory learners process new might be reading/writing learners is that they enjoy
information by having it explained to them out loud or keeping a journal or writing creative stories. At school,
by vocalizing it themselves. A sign that your kids might reading/writing learners are especially good at taking
be auditory learners is that they “read” books out notes from their textbooks and from what the teachers
loud to themselves, even before they learned to read are writing down on the blackboard.
properly. Another sign is that they love listening to
music and singing. At school, auditory learners often
hum when they do their work.
How To Help With Homework: Have your kids write
down what they’re supposed to learn in an organized
way. Have them create detailed study notes, organized
How To Help With Homework: Have your kids vocalize nicely into sections with proper headings. Get them to
the material they’re studying. Making up rhymes and look up information online and in reference material
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