The Auditory Learner

• Never shuts up- the chatterer
• Tells jokes
• Tries to be funny
• Can win spelling bee if taught say-spell-say method
• Good story teller.   Stories get taller and taller.   Child may have to learn when to stop.
• Hyperactive
• Poor handwriting-history of reversals
• If child can make telephone call asking for information you have directed and remember the received message and relay that message back- good sign of auditory strength.
• Likes records, folk dances, rhythmic activities (NOTE: give the drums, etc. to the auditory learner).
• Probably has ten excuses for everything
• Knows all the words to all the songs-can memorize easily.
• Motorically awkward
• Poor performance on group tests of intelligence
• Seems brighter than group test results indicate
• Poor perception of time, space.

How To Teach The Child With A Strong Auditory Modality In The Classroom

• Talk through large and small muscle motor movements
• Verbalize the organization of tasks in steps in problem solving
• Provide a rhythmic structure for motor and reading tasks- work to a beat or a timing pattern.
• Give questions and directions orally and have the child repeat them
• Let children answer questions orally
• Have children spell words orally to memorize them or trigger word recognition
• Teach a phonetic decoding system
• Playing rhyming and blending word games
• Have children categorize and sequence words orally with many types of games
• Read to children to reinforce phonics (Dr Seuss Books), give them information and material about which you can ask comprehension questions
• Let children read orally often
• Make frequent use of tape recorders and records of many types
• Have children write from dictation