Visual Learning
- Let your child focus on the pictures and drawings on the page and ask comprehension questions: what, who, where, when, how and why. (Visual comprehension is an important aspect of learning and assessment.) Encourage your child to visualise written information and draw what she sees.
- Encourage her to use mind maps with different colours and even pictures to remember information.
- Let her play with board games and jigsaw and picture puzzles to develop spatial skills. Let her watch educational DVDs and use interactive digital books.”
Auditory Learning
- Read aloud together
- Encourage your child to write down or summarise what you read to him.
- Let him listen to a variety of audio books music and news programmes, and ask comprehension questions, such as “Describe what you are listening to”; Who is speaking? How do they feel and how do you know this?”
- “Where do you think this is set?”, etc.
- Record your child reading study notes and then let him play it back.
- Play word games such as I spy and do a variety of word puzzles to develop word association skill and vocabulary. Spelling puzzle answers out loud also reinforces visualisation of words and improves spelling.”
Logical Learning
- Draw your child’s attention to how different elements of a text are related to each other.
- Expose your child to more non-fiction texts in books, in newspapers and even on the Internet.
- Ask questions about sequences where your child gives a step-by-step account of events in stories or factual articles, of what they did that day, or how to make or do something. This develops the child’s ability to think logically and to use logical connectors such as first, then, before, and so on.
- Do projects that have a practical purpose and explain the purpose of activities to your child if she does not understand them.
- Let her use interactive digital books and play educational computer games, including Scrabble, Soduko, crossword puzzles and other word and number games.
Kinaesthetic Learning
- Use objects and gestures to show how things work.
- Encourage your child to act out his understanding of ideas through role-play and mime.
- Visit a variety of places where your child can touch and interact with animals, objects and people.
- Let him carry out experiments or build objects related to the themes he is learning about.
- Allow your child to move his body and small objects when he is concentrating.
- Play sports and games together.