Your home schooling mentor, Susie Q, has been teaching her 42 children for 500 years. Her son, Sam, is just like your son, Jeff. They both play baseball, have shaggy brown hair dangling in their eyes, hate baths, and eat spinach. Before you plunk down your money on Susie s suggestions, take a few minutes to think it through. No one likes making expensive curriculum mistakes.
Most people depend upon one dominant sense, reinforcing it with the lesser others.
This dominant strength, or information gathering preference, is better known as a learning style. This information is then acted upon or stored for a later time. Each learning style manifests itself in particular ways. They are good picture readers, discerning the story by its illustrations. They love finding hidden pictures, too.