Top 3 Learning Styles

1. Interpersonal

2. Bodily
Kinesthetic

Technology and
Teaching Strategies
Implement an
active learning
environment
(consistent
collaborative
content
discussions)
Give and receive
feedback face to
face
Talk out problems
and concepts
Work together on
large-group
projects
Provide
opportunities for
mentoring and
tutoring
Socratic Seminars
Online discussions
Perform skits or
make videos to
show concepts
learned
Make a game of
the writing traits
or various reading
strategies
Apply learning of
concepts to hands
on activities
Actively engage in
learning (walking
around the
classroom while
reading, squeezing
a stress ball or
play question ball
to learn or review

Tools
https://www.schoology.com/
(for online discussions and interactions)
https://www.google.com/docs/ab
out/
(place for students to give and receive
feedback from each other, as well as
work on large projects together)
http://ed.ted.com/
(view common TED talks to spark
discussion)

https://www.havefunteaching.co
m/flash-cards/language-artsflash-cards/
(interactive way to study, learn new
concepts, or activate background
knowledge)
https://www.wevideo.com/
(students can create videos together to
show concepts learned)
http://www.sploder.com/freegame-creator.php
(students can create their own game
about Language Arts concepts and play
each others games)

Engaging Ideas for

All Lessons
Online
discussion of
all concepts
Utilize
Google Docs
for group
assignments
Provide
multiple
brain breaks
throughout
every lesson
Incorporate
mnemonic
devices,
sounds, and
movements
with learning
new or
reviewing
past
Language
Arts concepts

3. Musical

Language Arts
concepts).
Incorporate music
into daily lessons
(students can make
connections to
concepts through
sounds/musical
lyrics, use songs to
teach vocabulary,
use songs for
writing prompts)
Create a song,
rhyme, or chant to
help memorize
Language Arts
concepts (for
example, the
elements on a plot
diagram)
Associate learning
new concepts to a
song that connects
to you

http://www.songsforteaching.com
/readingcomprehension/
(listen to and rehearse these songs for
help with reading comprehension)
https://www.scorebig.com/concer
t-tickets/grooveshark?
a=grooveshark
(play songs for students to write to,
connect to, and engage them in content
learning)
http://www.mnemonicgenerator.c
om/
(assign students to explore mnemonics to
learn and remember new Language Arts
concepts)

References
Multiple Intelligences: Digging Deeper. (2015, November 13). Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/your-multipleintelligences
Wolpert-Gawron, H. (2014, March 28). 8 Ways to Use Music in the Language Arts Classroom. Retrieved from
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/using-music-strategies-language-arts-classroom-heather-wolpert-gawron