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small group discussions, music, and “lecturettes” promote learning. Kinesthetic learners like to feel things and prefer “hands-on”activities, simulations, and games that involve movement.To find out how a person likes to learn, ask him/her and/or a teacher or parent and pay attention to the way he/she approaches workassignments. Do they draw graphs or pictures to explain projects or activities? Visual learners often do this. Do they like to talkthrough homework assignments or projects/tasks, or create songs to remember things like spelling words? Auditory learners tend to dothis. Do they like to trace the shape of things or build models of things being studied? Kinesthetic learners often do this. If you are theparent, observe how your youth interacts in daily situations.Once you know learning styles, you can plan your teaching (or self-instruction). If you are working with a group, use a variety ofteaching methods, ones that appeal to all three learning styles. Exhibit 4 shows the levels of learning (awareness, knowledge andunderstanding, knows how to, and can or is able to do) with the three learning styles. Note: Higher levels of learning requireapplication and demonstration of the information learned through simulations, role-plays, field trips, etc. Many of these types ofactivities incorporate all three learning styles.Life Skills Guidebook 21©2004 by Casey Family Programs.