Linguistic Learner Examples-Multiple Intellgience

Another learning style from the Multiple Intelligence pie is the Linguistic learner.

According to Howard Gardner the Linguistic learner uses words effectively.  They often think in words,  and they enjoy reading, playing word games, and writing poems or stories. 

One lesson I use in my class allows students to create short poems based upon key terms, historical people, or key concepts from the lesson.  These assignments allows students to sharpens their writing as they carefully choose the words to fit the poems.  At the same time student review and reiterate the key concepts as they complete the poems.

Additionaly, I have students include a small color drawing for each poem.  This adds to the flavor of the poems, and includes another mode of learning; visual.

In this assignment, a student has completed three different kinds of poems from my World History class.  This section focused upon explorers and empire building.  In these examples my students used the following key terms and historical people:

• The first poem centered upon the Sepoys (Cinquain poem).
• The second poem dealt with the Dutch merchants and traders (an acrostic poem).
• The third poem was about the Portuguese explore Afonso de Albuquerque (Historical person poem)

 

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