Multisensory Learning
Thursday, December 2nd, 2004
An instructional approach that combines auditory, visual, and tactile elements into a learning task. Tracing sandpaper numbers while saying a number fact aloud would be a multisensory learning activity.
multi = many
sensory = one or more of the senses: auditory, visual, tactile or kinesthetic (fine or gross)
Another way to think about this is that for many if not all learners, it is sometimes useful to experience new information in two or more sensory channels simultaneously: seeing and hearing and tracing the letter “A.”
Okay so what if our project is to design a literacy class for 40 days. We have to create prompts for the kids to write a 5 papragraph paper on. The teacher wants us to give them a diagnostic exam on sentence sense and create a reading test to see how the kids remember information they have read… I dont see how we can use multi sensory learning in any of these projects. Do you have any ideas?
Alyssa: Your description of this “problem” is a bit mixed up, at lest to me.
I don’t know what a prompt for writing a 5 paragraph essay is? What kind of prompts and in what form?
Do you have to create a diagnostic test to be given before they write? What kind of test if this? What are you measuring? What are they reading? What kinds of things are they reading for and what will the post test measure?
If you can be a bit more clear about this assignment and process I might be able to help you sort out how to make it all a bit more multi-sensory but as it is, I’m not quite sure what you’re being asked to do and why.