Discover Your Child’s Learning Style

One size does not fit all when it comes to learning styles. There are a number of different learning styles, like visual, auditory, kinesthetic, reading/writing, logical, social, and more. This set of information and strategies will help you as you begin to homeschool your unique learner, by giving you the information and tools you’ll need when planning curriculum, schedules, methods of learning, and extracurriculars. By identifying your child’s learning styles, you’ll increase homeschool success and satisfaction for both you and your children.

What’s My Child’s Learning Preference?

Discover and unleash your child's superpower! Your observations about your child can help you understand his/her particular learning style and preferences. These really are your child's superpowers for learning. Insight into learning styles can help you choose curriculum and can guide your homeschool planning, resulting in enhanced learning, improved attitudes, and more enjoyment for you child and for you too.

Determining Your Child's Learning Style

Is your child a visual learner? Is your child an auditory learner? Is your child a reading/writing learner? Or is your child a kinesthetic learner? This checklist of detailed questions can help you determine your child's learning style and will point you in the right direction to find the right methods of teaching and learning, to enhance his or her strengths while meeting challenges with better approaches.

Know Your Students: Identify Their Personal Learning Styles

Educators have many ways of defining and describing the way people process information including learning personalities, modalities, and styles. The simplest to understand and apply involves three categories: lookers, listeners, and movers. It is helpful for a teaching parent to know his own learning style as well as the preferred learning style of each child in the family for several reasons.

Learning Styles and Hemispheric Dominance—Right or Left Brain: Which is Dominant in Your Family?

This is part two of a set of articles discussing learning styles and hemispheric dominance. Here Karen M. Gibson focuses on the theory of right-brain/left-brain dominance and some of the research and theories surrounding this concept. She also details some strategies for learning in response to understanding your child's natural patterns and styles of learning.

Learning Styles and Hemispheric Dominance: Is Your Learning Style at Odds with That of Your Child's?

This article focuses on how the differences between your own learning styles and right-brain/left-brain capabilities and that of your children can affect your home learning atmosphere. Learn to identify and understand learning styles, along with strategies to integrate your learning style with that of your children.

Discovering Your Child’s Learning Style

Before you purchase homeschool curriculum, you'll want to give some thought to the different ways that people learn and try to identify your child's learning style. This will benefit your child, but will also make homeschooling easier for you. Most people have one primary learning style, but most of us also overlap somewhat into other styles. Focusing on your child's learning style will help bring more success to your homeschooling.

Homeschooling Students With Different Learning Styles (Visual, Read/Write, Auditory and Kinesthetic)

Do you know how your child learns best? If you're not sure, this guide can help you figure it out. Because people learn in different ways, with diverse ways of capturing information and processing knowledge, you'll be more successful in your homeschooling if you can understand these particular learning styles for your children. Responding to your children's learning styles will help both them and you become more effective and enthusiastic about learning in your home. This guide helps you understand visual learning styles, auditory learning styles, reading/writing learning styles, kinesthetic learning styles, and offers information and tips to get the most out of your understanding of your own child.

How To Identify Children’s Learning Styles

Figuring out your child's learning style is one of the keys to homeschooling success. This guide explores four types of learning styles, including visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and logical. There is a list of strategies designed for each learning style that you can implement in your homeschool to help your child avoid frustration and be more successful.

The Learning Style Quiz

How do I know what my child's learning style is? This quick quiz can help you figure it out. There are lots of combinations of different learning styles and usually children are not just one single style. Everyone learns in a variety of ways. Understanding this can help you re-evaluate and adjust to your child's particular learning style. This quiz focuses on the three main learning styles: auditory, visual, and kinesthetic.

Understanding Learning Styles...And Homeschooling Accordingly

Everyone learns differently. When you homeschool, it is very helpful to figure out the different ways that your children learn, process information, and retain knowledge. This will make teaching easier, and also reduces your child's frustration. Both will set you up for success. This guide details the Vark model of assessing learning styles for four identified ways of learning. Vark stands for visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic. It further explains three additional learning styles identified by developmental psychologist Howard Gardner. This is called the theory of Multiple Intelligences: logical-mathematical, social, and solitary.

Left vs. Right: Which Side Are You On?

First take the Hemispheric Dominance Inventory Test to see which side of your brain is dominant. You can then use this discussion to understand how your information processing styles and thinking characteristics work together.