Reading Styles & Strategies
Visual	Students with Visual   Strengths Can Easily:	Enjoy/Learn Best by:	Learn to Read Best:
	• Recall what they see • Follow written or drawn instructions • Learn by observing people, objects, pictures, etc.	Using computer graphics, performing visual puzzles, looking at or designing maps, charts, graphs, diagrams, cartoons, posters, bulletin boards	With sight methods, dissimilar words, silent reading, words accompanied by pictures or slides, stories in filmstrips or videos
Auditory	Students with Auditory   Strengths Can Easily:	Enjoy/Learn Best by:	Learn to Read Best:
	• Recall what they hear • Follow spoken instructions • Learn by listening and speaking	Talking, interviewing, debating, participating on a panel, asking and answering questions, memorizing, making oral reports	With phonics, choral reading, by listening to stories and recordings of books, discussing stories, reading orally
Tactile	Students with Tactile   Strengths Can Easily:	Enjoy/Learn Best by:	Learn to Read Best:
	• Recall what they touch • Follow instructions they write or touch • Learn by touching or manipulating objects	Doodling, sketching, playing board games, building models, constructing dioramas and relief maps, setting up experiments, writing, tracing	With writing/tracing methods, such as Fernald, language experience, by playing games or reading instructions, then making something
Kinesthetic	Students w/ Kinesthetic   Strengths Can Easily:	Enjoy/Learn Best by:	Learn to Read Best:
	• Recall what they experience • Follow instructions that they perform or rehearse • Learn when engaged in physical activity	Playing floor games, assembling and/or disassembling objects, building models, participating in fairs, setting up experiments, acting, role playing, scavenger hunts	By pantomiming, acting in plays, riding a stationary bike while listening to a book, recording and reading, reading instructions and then building/doing something
Global	Students with Global  Tendencies Can Easily:	Enjoy/Learn Best by:	Learn to Read Best:
	• Make decisions based on emotions and intuition • Are spontaneous, random • Focus on creativity • Care less about a tidy environment	Information presented in an interesting or humorous story, examples, interesting materials, group work, and activities	With holistic reading methods, such as recorded books, story writing, choral reading, books, computer software, audiovisual materials, projects, and games
Analytic	Students with Analytic   Tendencies Can Easily:	Enjoy/Learn Best by:	Learn to Read Best:
	• Make decisions based on logic or common sense • Plan and organize well • Focus on details and facts • Like a tidy environment	Information presented in sequential steps, with rules and examples, structured materials, teacher-directed lessons, clear goals and requirements	Phonics (if auditory), programmed materials, puzzles, some worksheets—reinforced by strategies appropriate for global learners