What is a visual learner?
If you peek into a classroom, it’s easy to spot a visual learner. He’s the one sitting in the reading nook leafing through a book, or the one who’s playing with a puzzle or shapes and letters. If your child is a visual learner, you’ve probably noticed that he has keen powers of observation: He watches your lips move as you speak or pays close attention to what you do when you’re demonstrating something. That’s because visual learners rely primarily on their sense of sight to take in information, understand it, and remember it. If they don’t “see” it, they’re not able to fully comprehend it. Educators have identified two kinds of visual learners: picture learners and print learners. Many children are a mixture of both, although some are decidedly one or the other, according to Mariaemma Willis and Victoria Hodson, authors of Discover Your Child’s Learning Style. Picture learners think in images; if you ask one whether an elephant is gray, he’ll probably summon up the image of an elephan
