Verbal-Linguistic
Students prefer to learn using word play in both speech and writing

Strategies​

• Completing crossword puzzles with vocabulary words.
• Playing games like Scrabble, Scrabble Junior, or Boggle.
• Writing short stories for a classroom newsletter.
• Writing feature articles for the school newspaper.
• Writing a letter to the editor in response to articles.
• Using digital resources such as electronic libraries, desktop publishing, word games, and word processing.
• Creating poems for a class poetry book.
• Entering their original poems in a poetry contest.
• Listening to a storyteller.
• Telling a story to the class.

Logical-Mathematical
Students with this type of learning style love working with numbers and analyzing data. Their reasoning and understanding of cause and effect are well developed.

Strategies:

• Playing math games like Mancala, dominoes, chess, checkers, and Monopoly.
• Searching for patterns in the classroom, school, outdoors, and home.
• Conducting experiments to demonstrate science concepts.
• Using science tool kits for science programs.
• Designing alphabetic and numeric codes.
• Making up analogies.

Spatial
Students learn best using pictures and images.

Strategies 

• Taking photographs for assignments and classroom newsletters.
• Taking photographs for the school yearbook, school newsletter, or science assignments.
• Using clay or play dough to make objects or represent concepts from content-area lessons.
• Using pictorial models such as flow charts, visual maps, Venn diagrams, and timelines to connect new material to known information.
• Taking notes using concept mapping, mind mapping, and clustering.
• Using puppets to act out and reinforce concepts learned in class.
• Using maps to study geographical locations discussed in class.
• Illustrating poems for the class poetry book by drawing or using computer software.