Tommy Galletta
Justin Henderson
Erin Morris
Leigh Daley
Research on Learners
• 18% are auditory learners
• 32% are visual learners
• 25% are tactile learners
• 25% are kinesthetic learners
which means that greater than 50% of
learners are nonlinguistic
Brain Enrichment Variables
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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
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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/CauseEffect Patterns
• Episode Patterns
• Generalization/Prin
ciple 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.
FACT
FACT
TOPIC
FACT
FACT
FACT
Time-Sequence Patterns
• Organize events in a specific
chronological order
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
PLACE
DURATION
TIME
CAUSE
PERSON
EPISODE
PERSON
EFFECT
PERSON
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
Example
CHARACTERISTIC
CONCEPT
CHARACTERISTIC
CHARACTERISTIC
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.ht
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• 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: Researchbased strategies for increasing student achievement.
Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development.
“Actions speak
louder than words”