Visual Perception Modality:

Strengths:

Receive information through seeing.
Express yourself with charts, graphs, maps, slides, pictures, and video and computer software.
Visualize information to remember it.
Learning relies on illustrations, diagrams and handouts.
You use color to organize information.
You prefer a quiet study area.

Weaknesses:

You may not like to work in groups.

Learning strategies:

Read material before a lecture or practical course.
Use pictures and “mind- mapping” with notes.
Locate other sources of information such as videos, educational television, books and computer software.

General Activities:

Picture the word in your mind and see which spelling looks right.
Check the box for diagrams or pictures showing how to proceed.
Show a diagram or illustration of what is wrong.
Draw a map to provide directions.
Watch television when you are bored.

Organizational Activities:

Use charts and diagrams to represent ideas in a text.
Make T-Bar presentations. (Ben Franklin Arguments)
Create branching tree diagram to illustrate structure of essays.
Use Venn diagrams to show similarities and differences.
Highlight key ideas in texts, notes and the blackboard.
Outline using Large Headings, indentations and bullets.
Color-code materials using one color for each main idea.

Idea Development:

Use concept mapping/ bubbles/webbing to show how ideas can grow.
Link ideas with colored pens and chalk.
Highlight related ideas with colored markers.
Create columns for main ideas and add supporting details underneath.

Grammar Development:

Label subjects and verbs with stick-on labels.
Highlight subjects and/or verb endings with colored chalk or markers.
Create flow charts, trees or diagrams to show grammar rules.
Use expressive body language.

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