Learning Styles Characteristics and Tutoring Tips

Auditory Learners

Characteristics

• Enjoy talking
• Like to discuss things
• Prefer oral reading
• Like phonics
• Find sounds distracting
• Move lips when reading
• Like to make noise
• Easily distracted

Learning strengths

• Remember what they hear and say
• Can recall information after hearing it a few times
• Can remember oral instructions well
• Understand information best when they HEAR it

Tutoring tips

• Use tapes for reading
• Record spelling words on tape
• Give oral explanations and details
• Discuss concepts and ideas
• Use show and tell
• Use verbal games
• Do oral presentations and demonstrations
• Encourage learner to read out loud, spell out loud
• Teach phonics
• Do paired or duet reading
• Discuss the story/article before reading
• Use Reader’s Theatre, choral reading, poems, music
• Use chanting or rhyming to remember things
• Repeat key points
• Indicate relationships verbally with words such as therefore, in contrast, at the same time, and so on.