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w2 Visual Modality

Roughly 40-50% of people are visual learners who learn best through seeing information. Visual learners need to see material while listening to it or reading about it. They benefit from summarizing information visually through charts, graphs, diagrams or pictures. Visual learners learn easily from videos and other visual media.

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w2 Visual Modality

Roughly 40-50% of people are visual learners who learn best through seeing information. Visual learners need to see material while listening to it or reading about it. They benefit from summarizing information visually through charts, graphs, diagrams or pictures. Visual learners learn easily from videos and other visual media.

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Roughly 40 to 50 percent of the general population prefers the visual channel as their primary

learning modality.
A visual learner learns best by seeing the material to be learned.


Characteristics

Needs to see the material while listening to it.

Needs to have a textbook open while a teacher is lecturing. This is especially true in
foreign language learning.

May learn better from reading the material than from listening to a lecture on the material.

Will enhance learning by summarizing material in some visual form such as a chart, graph,
diagram, or pictorial representation.

Will learn easily from movies, videos, computer programs, etc., or other media where the
material is presented visually.

May experience difficulty taking notes in class during a lecture.

May need to pay closer attention to oral directions than written directions.


STRENGTHS

Likes books and pictures
Likes a tidy desk
A place for everything
Can find way to principals office
Finds items other children lose
Catches all your typos
Remembers where you put anything you
have mislaid
Tells you have a loose or missing button, a
smudge on your chin
Likes to work puzzles
Copies friends paper, mistakes and all
Uses balance in drawings, paintings, good
spatial arrangement
Uses different colors of ink, erasers, paper,
dividers to differentiate information
May have a photographic memory
(eidetic imagery memory)

Visual Modality
TEACHING PROCEDURES

Give written directions
Directions in pictures
Play matching games
Use all types of puzzles, crosswords
Use color coding system to teach
sound-symbol
Word searches in magazines, papers
Dictionary use
Trace & copy letters
Memorize rules
Use PowerPoint as a backdrop
Use closed caption on videos
Provide notes pages (AVID, etc.)
Provide colored handouts that are
organized according to color (blue =
concepts; yellow = formulas, etc.

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