1. Strengthen Your Child’s Visual Mode of Learning A picture is worth a thousand words-especially for visual learners Children today watch so much TV and play video games-their visual process are very good. Children learn better when they are presented with words and pictures together!!

2. Continued Visualization- Help your child visualize what her or she is reading about or what you are talking about. Today’s children have trouble doing that because they watch such graphic video games. Athletes, fighter pilots, and sick children visualize how they want things to turn out. Visualization is powerful.

3. Continued What to do: Model for your children how visuals help you. Label objects around the house for preschool children When helping with homework, create visuals to help explain. When reading science or social studies with your children, point out the science and social studies graphs, pictures, and charts in the book. Read allowed to your children of any age and tell them to visualize what you are reading. Write difficult words on a piece of paper and tell them to study. Help children remember difficult words. Draw a crazy picture about the word on an index card. Have your children draw a word web to break up vocabulary into chunks.

4. Continued Using Graphic Organizers are a big help for students who are visual learners. They gain the student’s attention and help the student mentally organize material. Graphic organizers help students chunk material for easier memorization. Google graphic organizers and many free ones will appear.

5. Continued-One type of Graphic Organizer The more we use nonlinguistic representations while learning, the better we can think about and recall our knowledge.

6. Continued Pictographic Representations Creating logographic cards can help students learn vocabulary words. On one side of the card, students write the vocabulary words; on the other side, they write the definition and draw a logograph that suggests the meaning of the word. Logographic Card

7. Continued- One type of Graphic Organizer Union General s Scott McClellan Halleck Grant

8. Continue-EXAMPLES Word: Precarious Word:Apparition Logographic Cue:

9. Continued-Cause and Effect CauseSoEffect

10. Continued-Sequence