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Books about Learning Styles

Discover Your Child's Learning Style
Children Learn in Unique Ways--Here's the Key to Every Child's Learning Success
by Mariaemma Willis, Victoria Kindle-Hodson
The authors' "learning style profile" takes into account a child's talents, interests, preferred learning environment, and disposition, as well as the three more familiar modes.

Seven Times Smarter
50 Activities, Games, and Projects to Develop the Seven Intelligences of Your Child
by Laurel Schmidt
A parent-friendly discussion of multiple intelligence theory and hundreds of read-aloud and read-along titles linked thematically to the chapters. Designed for children ages 4-12.

The Way They Learn
How to discover and teach to your child's strengths

By Cynthia Ulrich Tobias
If you have ever been frustrated with your child because you can't seem to communicate, or if you have ever questioned the crazy way your child says s/he prefers to study, then this book is for you!

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Determine Your Children's Learning Styles

Parts is Parts - Intelligence Revisited
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By David Albert. Most homeschoolers I know are partial to Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.

Teaching and Relating to Your Child's Learning Style
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How to teach anyone to read once you have identified their learning style. By Lorraine Peoples, author of You Can Teach Someone to Read.

Why Are Learning Styles Important?
If you know your children's learning styles, you'll be far better equipped to teach them. You'll be far better prepared to choose a homeschooling curriculum. You'll know how to help your children understand others.

Child's Learning Assets
The natural order of things is that children do their learning "job" by first collecting information so that when it comes time to think in the abstract, they have lots of information to work with. By Linda Dobson [HEM].

Discover Your Child's Learning Style
We need to stop forcing kids to learn in ways that don't work for them and start paying attention to the ways that do work. Article in The Link by Mariaemma Pelullo-Wills & Victoria Kindle-Hodson.

Early Year's Child's Learning Assets
Homeschooling uses childhood energy instead of constantly trying to dam it. Now, curiosity creates interest, interest increases attention to the task at hand, and attention gives rise to learning. By Linda Dobson

Emotional Intelligence, etc.
This site contains lots of practical information on Emotional Intelligence (EQ) as Steve Hein interprets and applies it. Many homeschool families value a high EQ more than a high IQ.

How Can I Find Out My Child's Learning Style?
To discover your child's learning style you may observe what your child likes and enjoys doing most while he/she is playing, interacting or learning.

Keirsey Temperament Sorter
The questionaire for children identifies four temperament types: Guardian, Artisan, Idealist, and Rational. Parents will need to help younger children.

A Learning Style Survey for College
Click on the most appropriate button after each statement. Appropriate for those youger than college, too. Highly descriptive results page, telling you approach to take to learning based on your learning style.

Learning Styles
This chart helps you determine your learning style; read the word in the left column and then answer the questions in the successive three columns to see how you respond to each situation.

Learning Styles and Hemispheric Dominance:
Is Your Learning Style at Odds with That of Your Child's?

These differences in our preferred approaches to learning and utilization of resources were causing some conflict among my children and myself and a great deal of inner turmoil on my part. By Karen M. Gibson, HELM.

Learning Styles and Personality Types
Temperament is based on the work of Kiersey and Bates, who felt that each of the 16 psychological preferences could be categorized into one of four temperament types.

Learning Styles Online
Our learning styles inventory, available at the site, asks the user 70 questions to identify which are the user's dominant and secondary learning styles. It then displays the results visually using our unique learning styles graph.

Left Vs. Right. Which Side Are You On?
In general the left and right hemispheres of your brain process information in different ways. We tend to process information using our dominant side. However, the learning and thinking process is enhanced when both side of the brain participate in a balanced manner. Take The Hemispheric Dominance Inventory Test.

Multiple Intelligences
The theory of multiple intelligences was developed in 1983 by Dr. Howard Gardner, professor of education at Harvard University. It suggests that the traditional notion of intelligence, based on I.Q. testing, is far too limited. Instead, Dr. Gardner proposes eight different intelligences to account for a broader range of human potential in children and adults.

Multiple Intelligences Test
Take the test and see which of your multiple intelligences is strongest.

Teaching and Learning Strategies
In this area of the website you will find information on some of the best researched and the most widely implemented methods of helping all students to learn more successfully. The information includes a description of how the teaching and learning strategies work, where they have been applied, results, and where to find further information from experts in the field, books, websites, and other resources.

100 Top Picks For Homeschool Curriculum: Choosing The Right Curriculum And Approach For Your Child's Learning Style
100 Top Picks For Homeschool Curriculum: Choosing The Right Curriculum And Approach For Your Child's Learning Style
by Cathy Duffy
Only in the science area is the Christian view brought strongly to the fore. Here she selects curriculum that stress creation and if evolution is mentioned it tends to be mentioned as, "provides tidbits of scientific information with which to challenge the theory of evolution." A child going on to college with only this kind of background may have a much more difficult time than one taught the generally accepted theories.
 
Homeschooling Methods: Seasoned Advice on Learning StylesHomeschooling Methods: Seasoned Advice on Learning Styles
by Gena Suarez, Paul Suarez (Editor)
(February, 2006)
For new and veteran homeschool families alike, this extensive new release from the editors of The Old Schoolhouse TM Magazine serves as a homeschool convention in a book. It details today's most viable education models, helping parents formulate an educational game plan and choose teaching methodologies. There are more than twenty contributors including Christine Field, Jessica Hulcy, Dr. Raymond Moore, and Dr. Ruth Beechick.
 
The Mislabeled Child: How Understanding Your Child's Unique Learning Style Can Open the Door to Success
The Mislabeled Child: How Understanding Your Child's Unique Learning Style Can Open the Door to Success
by Brock Eide and Fernette Eide
The book is both an easy read for one that also goes into depth about so many learning disAbilities, how to diagnose them, and how to "cure" the curable ones, make end runs around the obstacles, and, if necessary, find experts to help.

So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences
by Harvey F. Silver, Richard W. Strong, Matthew J. Perini
This book is concise and reader-friendly. It is a great tool for determining learning styles and dominant intelligences.

A Mind at a Time
by Mel Levine
Dr. Levine shows parents and those who care for children how to identify these individual learning patterns, explaining how they can strengthen a child's abilities and either bypass or help overcome the child's weaknesses, producing positive results instead of repeated frustration and failure.

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