Tactile/Kinesthetic (touching or doing)

• Touches everything
• Moves while reading
• Gets up/walks frequently
• Fiddles with things
• Likes doing things with his or her hands
• Cannot keep hands to himself or herself

Strategies

• Provide manipulative
• Allow student to trace maps and diagrams
• Give instructions before passing out materials
• Keep work periods short
• Reduce long periods of sitting
• Use proximity
• Keep the student away from trash cans, bulletin boards and bookshelves
• Let the student make instructional materials
• Use role-play
• Have student construct things
• Cut worksheets into smaller segments.
• Avoid passive learning-use active learning
• Have student write answers with his or her finger during oral work
• Keep work and personal storage areas clear and organized.
• Make checklist and schedules

Materials

• Real objects
• Models
• Computers
• Globes
• Relief maps
• Finger paints
• Felt-tip pens
• Paper
• Scissors
• Pictures and magazines the student can use to make collages