Your Guide to Acing This Week’s Spelling Test
Rote memorization and recitation just don’t resonate with right-brain thinkers. Instead, we need to employ more creative, visual, and hands-on techniques to help them grasp new concepts effectively.
Vocabulary and Sight Words
Keep Those Brains Busy This Summer
How do we make the most of summer? How do we plug the drain and make gains, especially for our right brain visual kids? The key is to make learning hands on, make it visual, add lots of art and time to create and above all – make it FUN.
How to Study Spelling Words the Right Way
Visual kids learn best by making the words into pictures they can remember. So get out the note cards, colored markers and make the vocabulary words visual.
How to…. Study Spelling Words
All through elementary school kids will be assigned lists of vocabulary words to memorize. To ensure success, match the style of practice to your child’s learning style.
Video: Learning Sight Words
For visual kids, drills and memorization can be difficult. So, I have a simple way to practice those sight words that will appeal to your visual kid’s right brain by using color to trigger their memory. Let me show you exactly how to implement this strategy.
Visual Study Methods
While the kids are on break, don’t let them lose any of that hard won knowledge. Try making these vocabulary cards and studying them in the car on the way to Grandma’s house.
What Are They Going to Do in the Car?
When you’re on a road trip the kids are a captive audience. I have some great ideas for ways to make it fun and engaging while learning a little something along the way.
Word Practice for Visual Learners
When visual kids are learning new words they are actually taking a picture of the word in their mind. Watch this quick video of me talking about some great ways to practice new words with your child.
Fun and Free Teaching Tools
We want to help you help your child operate successfully in the classroom and have designed these activities (free downloads) with your visual learner in mind.
5 Ways to Study Sight Words
Mastering sight words is especially significant for visual learners because they don’t do as well with phonics. And while they’ll need to still use phonics to sound out words, they learn best by seeing and remembering whole words and sight words are perfect for this kind of learning.
