Susan Fitzell - Educational Consultant and Speaker » visual learners http://hightestscores.org Practical Strategies for Co-taught, Inclusive, and Differentiated Classrooms! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:04:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Visual Search Engines and Visual Learners http://hightestscores.org/2009/12/visual-search-engines-and-visual-learners/ http://hightestscores.org/2009/12/visual-search-engines-and-visual-learners/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:32:45 +0000 Susan Fitzell http://69.163.221.18/?p=317 When I consider how often we have students search the web for information, I wonder how many times struggling readers look at a page of search results and feel like they are reading a foreign language. Would students work better with visual searches or might they be distracting? Here are some that I’ve experimented with recently. I hope that you not only find them useful, I hope that you find them fun!

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Pat Murray, from Greater Latrose High School in Latrose, PA uses power writing as a technique to help transfer information from short term to long term memory. She suggests that students power write about what they’ve learned for 3 minutes immediately following a 15 minute lecture. Visual learners could also add stick-figure drawings to provide memory cues and enhance what they write.

Power writing can also be used as a way to improve writing skill. Mr. Smiddy, of Staunton Elementary, defines power writing as “a method of writing designed to improve students’ writing through a three step process.

The beginning step teaches word power, sentence power (structure) and basic paragraph structure.

The middle step focuses on stronger paragraphs with elaboration.

The advanced step combines what students have learned into a multiple paragraph essay” For more power writing tips and techniques from Mr. Smiddy, check out his website.

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