Learning Styles Characteristics and Tutoring Tips

Visual Learners

Characteristics

• Recall images they have seen
• Notice details
• Prefer things to be neat and organized
• Have good proofreading skills
• Like displays and presentations
• Would rather read than be read to
• Need visual aids
• Find making lists helpful
• Think before speaking or acting
• Memorize well
• Need to write things down

Learning strengths

• Remember what they read and write
• Enjoy visual projects and presentations
• Can remember diagrams, charts and maps well
• Understand information best when they SEE it

Tutoring tips

• Teach sight words
• Teach phonics
• Use the symbol and printed word with a picture
• Use pictures and diagrams
• Use written instructions
• Have learners visualize words for spelling
• Have learners memorize information in a logical sequence that can be visualized
• Use flash cards
• Use highlighters for important information
• Use matching games
• Use pictures, cartoons