Body Movement: You like to move, dance, wiggle, walk, and swim. You are likely good at sports, and you have good fine motor skills. You may enjoy taking things apart and putting them back together. Incorporating body movement into your learning will help you process and retain information better. Here are some ideas.

• Trace letters and words on each other's back.
  
  
• Use magnetic letters, letter blocks, or letters on index cards to spell words.
  
  
• Take a walk while discussing a story or gathering ideas for a story.
  
  
• Make pipe cleaner letters. Form letters out of bread dough. After you shape your letters, bake them and eat them!
  
  
• Use your whole arm (extend without bending your elbow) to write letters and words in the air.
  
  
• Change the place where you write and use different kinds of tools to write, ie., typewriter, computer, blackboard, or large pieces of paper.
  
  
• Write on a mirror with lipstick or soap.
  
  
• Take a walk and read all the words you find during the walk.
  
  
• Handle a Koosh ball or a worry stone during a study session.
  
  
• Take a break and do a cross-lateral walk.

Spatial: You remember things visually, including exact sizes and shapes of objects. You like posters, charts, and graphics. You like any kind of visual clues. You enjoy drawing. Effective techniques of enhancing your learning using your spatial intelligence include creating and/or using pictures, maps, diagrams, and graphs as you learn things. Other suggestions:

• Write a language experience story and then illustrate it.
  
  
• Color code words so each syllable is a different color.
  
  
• Write a word on the blackboard with a wet finger. Visualize the word as it disappears. See if you can spell it afterwards.
  
  
• Take a survey. Put the information in a chart.
  
  
• Write words vertically.
  
  
• Cut out words from a magazine and use them in a letter.
  
  
• Visualize spelling words.
  
  
• Use colorful newspapers like USA Today.
  
  
• Use crossword puzzles.

Logic/math:You enjoy exploring how things are related, and you like to understand how things work. You like mathematical concepts, puzzles and manipulative games. You are good at critical thinking. Here are ways to work with this intelligence in your lessons:

• Arrange cartoons and other pictures in a logical sequence.
  
  
• Sort, categorize, and characterize word lists.
  
  
• While reading a story, stop before you've finished and predict what will happen next.
  
  
• Explore the origins of words.
  
  
• Play games that require critical thinking. For example, pick the one word that doesn't fit: chair, table, paper clip, sofa. Explain why it doesn't fit.
  
  
• Work with scrambled sentences. Talk about what happens when the order is changed.
  
  
• After finishing a story, mind map some of the main ideas and details.
  
  
• Write the directions for completing a simple job like starting a car or tying a shoe.
  
  
• Make outlines of what you are going to write or of the material you've already read.
  
  
• Look for patterns in words. What's the relationship between heal, health, and healthier?
  
  
• Look at advertisements critically. What are they using to get you to buy their product?