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How Do I Know My Child’s Learning Style?

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Lubica Misevski

Children are unique, and understanding your child’s learning style is critical to their success. Because when you understand how your child learns you can help them at any age.

There are some key things to look for when it comes to child development and learning styles. And all children are born ready to learn, and absorb information, experiences and the wonder of life.

The three most common learning styles are visual, auditory, and physical (Kinesthetic). To help determine your child’s learning style here are some signs to look for in each of the area’s.

Visual: They notice details, and are aware when their environment changes. You may have moved a chair, a picture, their toys and they notice. They like to read, remember things by seeing them. May often watch rather than talk.

Auditory: Talks out load to self, can be easily distracted, likes to read, enjoys music, outgoing by nature, happy to participate in activities, can remember steps to follow in a sequence.

Kinesthetic: They are often on the go the whole time, touching, grabbing and playing. They enjoy being active and you may have to chase them around the house to read to them. They like to solve their problems by physically working through them. And are generally very active in play.

In one of our earlier blogs, we take all of the above styles and break them down further into multiple intelligence categories. But for now we stick to the above general areas.

So once you have identified your child’s preferred learning style what are some of the techniques you can use to accelerate their development.

The Visual Learner

Making and or using flashcards
Allowing them to draw, paint, and create
They will like puzzles
Use posters and charts to explain things
They will enjoy any type of word game, as long as they can see the words

The Auditory Learner

Will obviously enjoy a good book (or ten :))
Listening to music, melodies, or rhyme’s
Use word games
Will absorb more information if they answer your questions orally
And they enjoy talking so this should be encouraged

Kinesthetic (or physical learner)

A physical learner is great at remembering what they do, so activities that include participation are very important.
Will like building things, such as models, towers, and playing with blocks
Playing games of any sort, as long as it includes touching
Will like puppet shows (so pull out some old socks)
Will enjoy putting scrapbooks together

So this outlines 3 general areas of learning and some ideas about catering for each of these styles. Do you see an area you fit into, or the one your child does, we would love to hear about it?

Posted in Early child education, learning style