Modality Preferences and

Instructional Strategies
DARLENE M. DE PAZ, LPT
AUDITORY LEARNERS

• These students learn through verbal instruction from

others, self or oral reading, lecture discussion,
brainstorming, oral reports, speeches, TV, radio,
music, verbal games, paraphrasing, repetition,
spelling, bee, audio tapes, book on tape, creative
dramatics, phonic, reader’s theater (dialogue), poetry,
and verse.
VISUAL LEARNERS

• These students learn by seeing, watching and

observing and are strong in remembering visual
detail. They often learn to read best through
in recognition of visual patterns in words
TACTILE-KINESTHETIC LEARNERS

• These learners learn by doing, touching, and direct

involvement. They are hands-on learners who need to be

involved physically with project and activities. These

students need to use manipulative and have many objects

to touch and utilized to help lock in learning through

their sense of touch.

ANALYTIC & GLOBAL LEARNERS
• Left hemisphere dominant, analytic, and inductive,
learner are the same types of learner, their
characteristics are summarized below and they learn step
by step, parts to whole:
1. Can have several project going at once.
2. Are not very time conscious.
3. Grasp large concepts, then tackle details.
4. Need to see the big picture .
5. Find it helpful to see an example of the end product.
6. Need to discuss the relevance and make a connection.
7. Find clustering/mind mapping very helpful.
Developing Study Skills
PREVIEWING YOUR TEXTBOOK
Answer the following question to have five-minute preview of this text:
1. List the title of the text.
2. List the author(s)
3. What is the text’s most recent copyright date?
4. Read the preface or introduction. Summarized in a few sentences what
the book is going to be about.
5. Read the table of contents. How many units are in the text? How many
pages are in the text? List the title of the unit that sounds most
interesting to you.
6. Thumb through the book. Are there pictures? Graphics? Maps? Charts?
Illustrations? Questions at the end of the chapters? Pages with a
lot of white space?
7. Evaluate the difficulty of the text; how hard do you think this text
will be for you to read and understand?