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Learning Styles Read/Write Strategies

What is a Learning Style?

Information enters your brain three main ways: sight, hearing and touch, which
one you use the most is called your Learning Style
New Zealand-based teacher Neil D. Fleming is the originator of the VARK®, or
visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic classification
• Visual Learners learn by sight
• Auditory Learners learn by hearing
• Read/Write Learn by read and write
• Tactile Learners (kinesthetic) learn by touch

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Key words:
lists, notes and text in all its formats and whether in print or online.

Description:
This preference uses the printed word as the most important way to convey and
receive information. A reading- or writing-dominant learner uses repetition of
words and writing. Clearly, there is an overlap with visual and auditory styles, as
words and writing can be both, but, commonly, a person who prefers to learn this
way remembers or organizes things best in his mind by taking down notes.

If you have a strong preference for learning by Reading and

Writing (R & W) you should use some or all of the following:

To take in the information:

 lists
 headings
 dictionaries
 glossaries
 definitions
 handouts
 textbooks
 readings – library
 notes (often verbatim)
 teachers who use words well and have lots of information in sentences and
notes
 essays
 manuals (computing and laboratory)

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Study tips for Read Write Learner

 Write out the words again and again.
 Read your notes (silently) again and again.
 Rewrite the ideas and principles into other words.
 Organize any diagrams, graphs … into statements, e.g. “The trend is…”
 Turn reactions, actions, diagrams, charts and flows into words.

To perform well in examination

 Write assessment answers.
 Practice with multiple choice questions.
 Write paragraphs, beginnings and endings.
 Write your lists (a,b,c,d,1,2,3,4).
 Arrange your words into hierarchies and points.

This is YOU
 You prefer to read/write information spoken
 You need careful notes to learn
 You like books
 You can easily learn from books and web
 Writing will help you to remember & conceptualize

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