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Kids Learning Styles

Do you know your kids learning styles? Free learning style assessment to find out how differentiate instruction for your class.



What is a learning style?

It is simply a way to explain a student's preferred method of learning and development. Knowing different types of learning styles can drastically improve your teaching.

Identifying particular learning styles children display is not meant to pigeon-hole them. Most people actually have many traits of several different ones.

However, there is always a dominant one or two that should be factored in as to how we are best teaching children.

Brain research and learning supports teaching to kids learning styles.

The learning styles chart below shows the most commonly recognized kids learning styles.



7 Learning Styles

Knowledge of kids learning styles in the classroom, is based on Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory (Frames of Mind. 1983) and the 7 learning styles he proposed:

Type Perception
Linguistic/Auditory Language/words
Logical Numbers & Reasoning
Musical Rhythm & Sounds
Kinesthetic Movement
Spatial/Visual Images
Intrapersonal Self-awareness
Interpersonal Aware of people's emotions

It makes sense that if we tap into our kids' learning styles, we will naturally make them more responsive to learning. After all, learning and pleasure go hand-in-hand. The brain becomes more receptive, confidence grows, and achievement rises.

However…

Learning Styles in the Classroom

kids learning styles, free learning style assessmet

Here is a quick learning styles assessment you can use with your students.

The questions are designed to be a learning style indicator for the teacher to use to better understand the students and to aid in lesson planning.

Get your easy to use kids learning styles assessment now: Learning Styles Quiz.


Most students show strengths in one of three dominant types of learning styles most utilized by classroom teachers: Visual, Auditory or Kinesthetic (also called interactive learning styles).

Once your students have taken the quiz and you have calculated their results, it is time for you to start thinking about how you can use what you know in your lesson plans. You should also use Blooms Taxonomy to best prepare for mastery learning.

When these three types of learning styles are purposefully blended into daily lessons, you will see most of your students achieve beyond your expectations. There is no one perfect way for everyone to learn, and you may have some students who require other learning styles activities, but these three are critical.


Learning Styles Activities

Visual Learning Style

  • Draw pictures
  • Focus on using graphs and diagrams
  • Use visualization while reading
  • Use colors
  • Focus on "seeing" the words you try to spell

  • Auditory Learning Style

  • Read out loud
  • Talk through information
  • Discuss concepts with others
  • Listen to information repeatedly - record it
  • Sound out unfamiliar words by syllables, blends, digraphs and phonemes

  • Kinesthetic Learning Style

  • Highlight important information
  • Walk as you read
  • Use role play
  • Hold the book in your hands
  • Hold a stress ball or chew gum/candy


  • Educators should always be furthering their knowledge about how to best teach students, including their kids' learning styles.

    An excellent book is Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom. This is a must read for every teacher.

    Other excellent books for your professional library are The Way They Learn, So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences, and Enriching the Brain: How to Maximize Every Learner's Potential.


    "Nothing happens in teaching
    unless it happens to the learner."

    Carl Hansen

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