Every person has one primary learning mode. Once you identify that mode, you can learn to maximize it and enhance your child's education. Many teachers use a lecture-style forum, presenting information by talking to their students. Regulating voice tone, inflection, and body language will help all students maintain interest and attention. Auditory learners succeed when directions are read aloud, speeches are required, or information is presented and requested verbally.
Visual learners benefit from diagrams, charts, pictures, films, and written directions.
These students will value to-do lists, assignment logs, and written notes. Many of these techniques, however, also benefit kinesthetic learners. Children enter kindergarten as kinesthetic and tactual learners, moving and touching everything as they learn. By second or third grade, some students have become visual learners. During the late elementary years some students, primarily females, become auditory learners.