Children all have their own way of learning which can be categorised by the 3 most common learning styles – visual, kinaesthetic, and auditory.
By working out which your child belongs to, you can help them to study more efficiently. Here is some guidance from an independent school in Bucks on how to identify your child’s learning style and information on what they are.
Identifying your child’s learning style
Your child’s learning style is something that you can learn from their motivations and the things that they enjoy/don’t enjoy doing.
Getting to know their learning style can be useful to help them do their best at school and is also great information to know if you decide to find a tutor to work with them at home.
It can also be worked out by a VARK quiz which allows you to determine their learning style objectively.
Auditory learning
Children that are auditory learners learn by listening to lectures, instructions and having them repeated. This makes the different elements of speech all the more important like tone of voice and pitch.
If your child is an auditory learner, they may benefit from sitting at the front of the class as they can hear things clearly.
Visual learning
Visual learners, on the other hand, need visuals as the name would suggest. When teaching a visual learner provide graphs, charts, and diagrams so that they are able to interpret and digest information easily.
Coloured crayons and highlighters can also be used to make any text more memorable. They may also be able to learn better by sitting at the front of the class.
Kinaesthetic learning
If your child belongs to this category, they like doing things and getting stuck in. They love their science lessons, cooking and anything where they are able to experiment.
To help a kinaesthetic learner with their work you may want to look for practicals for them to do and opportunities where they can apply what they have learned to the real world.
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