Nonverbal Reasoning and Homework
Concrete thinking and visual overload may contribute to challenges with homework.
Concrete thinking and visual overload may contribute to challenges with homework.
Concrete Thinking | Visual Overload
| Concrete Thinking | |
| Use manipulatives to help conceptualize | |
| Encourage to verbalize through a process | |
| Use video models for learning | |
| Provide a concrete system to follow: sequential step-by-step process; break into components | daily checklist |
| Use guided inquiry for higher-level thinking | pogil.org |
| Provide explicit directions, but then help infer and estimate to develop a broader view beyond the specific details | questions to foster text comprehension |
| Visual Overload | |
| Write directions in short, bulleted segments | |
| Present visual information in larger print and a less spatially-stimulating format | Examples: large spaces between items on a worksheet; larger font for reading |
| Help detect subtle differences in visual details and circle details | |
| Simplify diagrams, charts, graphic organizers for relating big picture to details | |
| Games and activities to strengthen nonverbal skills | puzzles, tangrams, Legos, Trac 4 happy-neuron.com |
| Additional ideas: Visit ABCya.com and view their product inventory by grade level | ABCya.com (by grade) |