Tommy GallettaJustin Henderson

Erin MorrisLeigh Daley

Research on Learners

• 18% are auditory learners• 32% are visual learners• 25% are tactile learners• 25% are kinesthetic learnerswhich means that greater than 50%

of learners are nonlinguistic

Brain Enrichment Variables

• Challenge• Novelty• Feedback • Coherence • Time

QUESTIONS

• What is nonlinguistic representation?

• What are the six patterns of nonlinguistic representation?

• How do we teach nonlinguistic representation to our students?

What is nonlinguistic representation?

• It is an imagery mode of representation

• The imagery mode is expressed as mental pictures and physical sensations such as smell, taste, touch, kinesthetic association, and sound

• A way to raise percentiles by 27 points

How to Use Nonlinguistic Representation

• Graphic organizers• Make Physical Models• Generate Mental Pictures• Draw Pictures and Pictographs• Engage in Kinesthetic Activity

Patterns of nonlinguistic representation

• Descriptive Patterns

• Time-Sequence Patterns

• Process/Cause-Effect Patterns

• Episode Patterns• Generalization/

Principle Patterns• Concept Patterns

Descriptive Patterns

• They can be used to represent facts about specific persons, places, things, and events.

• The information does not need to be in any particular order.

TOPIC

FACT

FACT

FACT

FACT

FACT

Time-Sequence Patterns

• Organize events in a specific chronological order

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Process/Cause-Effect Patterns

• Organize information into a casual network leading to a specific outcome or into a sequence of steps leading to a specific product

EFFECT

Episode Patterns

• Organize information about specific events including:

- a setting (time and place)- specific people- specific duration- specific sequence of events- particular cause and effect

EPISODECAUSE EFFECT

PERSON PERSON PERSON

PLACEDURATION

TIME

Generalization/Principal Patterns

• Organize information into general statements with supporting examples

Principle

Example

Example

Example

Concept Patterns

• The most general of all patterns • Organize information around a

word or phrase that represents entire classes or categories of persons, places things, and events

CONCEPT

CHARACTERISTIC

CHARACTERISTIC

CHARACTERISTIC

Example

Example

Example

Example

Example

Example

Example

Make Physical Models

• Concrete representation of the knowledge that is being learned

• Souvenirs/tokens• 3D models – dioramas• File folder reviews

Draw Pictures and Pictographs

• Symbolic pictures that represent the knowledge that has been learned

• Flip books• Illustrate vocabulary

Engage in Kinesthetic Activity

• Physical movement associated with knowledge generates a mental image of the knowledge in the mind

• Finger plays• Role playing/charades• Elkonin boxes• Hand/body movements

QUESTIONS ?

Resources

• Organizers Galore!! http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/graphorg/index.html

• Interactive organizers http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/storymap/

• Souvenirs http://classroom.jc-schools.net/read/Souvenirs.htm

• Amazing stuff http://home.att.net/~teaching/langarts.htm

Bibliography

• Heidorn, P.Bryan, “Image Retrieval as Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Visual Model Matching” Library Trends, Vol. 48 n2, pages 303-325, Fall 99.

• Leonard, Laurence B. “Language Impairment in Children” Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, Vol. 25 n3, page 205-232, July 1979.

• Marzano, R. J., Pickering, D. J., & Pollock, J. E. (2001). Classroom instruction that works: Research-based strategies for increasing student achievement. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

“Actions speak louder than

words”