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Learning Styles: Auditory
Strategies & Resources For Students With Auditory Learning Strengths
Auditory learners tend to:
Process information most effectively when allowed to talk aloud to self
Move lips when reading "silently"
Comprehend and process verbally presented information most effectively
Enjoy reading dialogues and plays; dislike lengthy narratives and descriptions
Have good auditory word attack skills
Remember names, forget faces
Hum a lot
Read more slowly when reading "silently"
Be easily distracted by noises in the environment
Enjoy speaking with, and hearing presentations that include, different accents
Remember best when information is put into rhyme and/or song
Express emotions verbally
Auditory learners may find it difficult to:
Read silently for prolonged periods of time
Follow written directions
Focus on illustrations and visual cues
Refrain from expressing their emotions verbally
Take timed tests that are presented in a written format
Cope with prolonged periods of silence
Strategies auditory learners may find helpful include:
Providing a pleasing auditory environment and/or silence when concentrating
Using headsets (to provide an appropriate background sound environment, block out auditory distractions, etc.)
Allowing student to read aloud
Verbalizing information and/or providing verbal instruction
Having student repeat instructions aloud
Setting information into songs, raps, rhythms, etc.
Drilling and repeating orally
Providing oral materials and resources
Recording lectures or oral readings of information to be memorized then playing them back (as part of study strategies)
Lectures, discussions, debates, recordings, radio programming
Songs, storytelling, student speeches and oral presentations, etc.
Audio tapes/CDs
Dialogues, reader’s theater, and plays
Oral reading
Providing sound effects for stories
Using word games, mnemonics, palindromes, puns, etc.
Listening to and/or reading along with "books-on-tape" or other tape recorded information
Using interactive computer programs with audio element
Having someone read materials aloud and/or explain something verbally to student
Verbalizing things that student needs to memorize
Studying with friends
Using phonics approach when spelling and reading
Learning to verbalize to self "silently"
Imagining hearing in "mind’s ear"
Auditory resources they may find helpful and/or may enjoy include:
Books-on-tape or stories with sound tracks ("Peter and the Wolf", etc.)
Audiotapes/CDs
Computer programs with audio element
Music and/or rhyming
Read-a-longs
Interesting assignments include:Oral presentations
Tape recorded reports
Setting information to music and/or singing it
Discussing a topic with another person or in small group, working in pairs, etc.
Attending music concerts, plays, etc.
Participating in museum field trips with accompanying lecture (via docent, audiotapes, etc.)
Oral and/or duet readings
Dialogues, plays, storytelling
Making and/or hearing audiotapes
Acting out ideas
Speaking with and/or hearing dialogue with different accents
Verbalizing problem solving processes, pros & cons of situations, etc.
Creating personal lists of interesting sounding words
Using interesting sounding words in sentences, riddles, songs, poetry, etc.
Math Materials
Chalk Dust Company provides comprehensive videotape-based courses for basic math through calculus (books, tapes, and solution guides are available).
Mondo Math (by Learning Quest) is an interactive music-based program that is designed to help improve students’ basic math skills; available from Report Card, GW Supply, Toys that Teach, A Brighter Child, etc.
Multiplication Rock video (elementary, Schoolhouse Rock series) available from various video and educational materials suppliers, PLS Bookstore, etc.
Musical Math Facts (from Pearson Learning) provides "hands-on, multi-sensory sing along lessons" that teach basic math facts; for grades 1-4; kit appropriate for individualized home-based learning is available from Homeschool Headquarters, etc.
Now I Get It! is a program designed to reach "the non-mathematical thinker through songs, stories, and hands-on activities"; available from Report Card, A Brighter Child, etc.
On Cloud Nine - Visualizing & Verbalizing for Math (all ages); from Gander Publishing (Lindamood-Bell)
Pig Out on Math/Materials for Math carries a wide variety of math materials appropriate for various learning styles.
Video Tutor (various ages/levels); from various video and educational materials suppliers.
Wonder Number Game; from various educational materials vendors
Miscellaneous Materials
Audio Memory Publishing provides products designed to help students memorize information about grammar, geography, states & capitals, and mathematics through music.
Boomerang provides a theme-based monthly magazine in an audio format; ages 6-12.
Books on Tape, Inc. provides literature selection in an audio format.
Center for New Discoveries in Learning provides information, learning strategies, and resources designed to help students learn.
Educational Record Center specializes in CDs, audiocassettes, books-on-tape, read-a-longs, CD ROMS, etc.
Greathall Producations produces quality storytelling recordings by Jim Weiss.
Homespun Tapes provides a variety of musical instrument instruction courses on video, audiocassettes, and CDs.
Learning Strategies offers books, tapes, and self-study programs.
Leap Frog Schoolhouse materials are interactive, multi-sensory learning tools/toys.
L.L. Distribution (Listening Library) is a source for unabridged audio books for all ages.
Lyrical Science provides learning resources designed to help students memorize scientific information to the tunes of old songs; for 7-12.
Music for Little People provides educational and multicultural recordings for children.
Nightingale Conant produces and distributes self-improvement tapes, videos, and books for a wide variety of subjects.
PCI Educational Publishing is a source for high interest, K-12 educational materials designed to address various students’ learning styles.
Penton Overseas, Inc. is a publisher and distributor of audios, videos, CDs, and books.
PLS Bookstore (Performance Learning Systems) offers products that address the learning styles and needs of students; games, "Schoolhouse Rock" videos, etc.
Power-Glide provides audio-based foreign language programs.
Recorded Books, Inc. publishes audio books on cassette and CD.
Saddleback Educational, Inc. publishes and distributes read-a-longs, videos, textbooks, etc.
Sara Jordan Publishing provides supplemental, educational audio resources.
Signal Medial Publishers is the publisher of "Adventure Tales of American History," a multimedia U.S. history program. Includes audiotapes with sound effects, period music selections, and word-for-word reading of text; for ages 9 and up.
Train a Brain specializes in K-8 materials "to help students to remember".
Tree Farm Communications, Inc. offers recordings of educational informational audio and video materials (including Michael Medved’s history-related audiocassettes).
"Waldorf" resources are designed to address all learning modalities; visual, verbal, & kinesthetic; available from Rudolf Steiner.
Zenger Media is a source for educational books, CD ROMs, videos, laserdiscs, software, charts, posters.
Reading/Writing Materials
A. W. Peller & Associates is a source for read-a-longs, books on tape, sound-readers, etc. (They offer several specialty catalogs, including one "Books into Media").
Create! Press is a source for a creative story writing game, workbooks, etc.
Earobics is a CD-ROM based phonics program that is designed to develop "auditory processing and phonological awareness skills"; available from various computer software vendor sources.
Fab Phonics (by Learning Quest) is an interactive, music-based phonics program designed to help improve students’ reading skills; available from Report Card, GW Supply, Toys that Teach, A Brighter Child, etc.
Gateway Learning Corp. is a distributor for Hooked-on-Phonics, etc.
Great Books Foundation includes supplemental audio readings of their literature selections.
Institute for Excellence in Writing offers a highly acclaimed/recommended video course for grades 2-12.
Learning Links provides a wide variety of resources for literature-based reading programs; books, study guides, audiocassettes, videos, etc.
Mari, Inc. is a great source for reading resources, literature guides, books-on-tape, etc.
Mountcastle Company publishes a prize-winning, relatively inexpensive multimedia phonics course with texts and CDs; designed to help parents teach their children to read.
Phonics Tutor (all ages) is a no frills, comprehensive, step-by-step reading program for all ages (various formats: book and/or CD ROM); from various bookstores, software suppliers, Home Learners Catalog, etc.
Spelling Power is a multi-sensory spelling program for all levels; from Home Learners Catalog, A Brighter Child, etc.
The Texas Scottish Rites Hospital literacy program provides multi-sensory learning materials for dyslexic students; accompanying materials available from Educator’s Publishing Service (EPS)
Sing, Spell, Read, & Write from Pearson/Modern Curriculum Press is a multi-sensory phonics-based reading program.
Sound it Out Land is a software-based, multi-sensory phonics program; available from several educational software suppliers.
Spell It Deluxe (Davidson, publisher) is a CD ROM-based spelling program for grades 1-6; available from several educational software suppliers.
Ultimate Phonics (Spencer Learning, publisher) is a phonics-based reading program for all ages; from various software vendors.
Visualizing & Verbalizing, Vanilla Vocabulary, etc.; available from Gander Publishing (Lindamood-Bell).
Zoo Phonics (800) 622-8104 is a multi-sensory, integrated phonics/reading/spelling/writing program (animal theme).