Wilhelm, Chapter 5

Some people tend to be visual learners. This means that they learn best while their seeing and experiencing things by seeing. This is true with some readers as well. There are a couple of teaching strategies that Wilhelm describes in his chapter that work with visual learners. The symbolic story representation strategy involves using cut outs of characters , setting, ideas, and forces that are important to the story. The students are then suppose to act out and describe the action of the story using the cutouts. The cutouts,according to Wilhelm, bridge the gap between visualization and drama. This strategy can be revised and criticized in many different ways all would help the students gain different realizations about the story. Students could also picture a part in the story that they have a good visualization about. This helps the students use the authors words and their minds to portray a visual image in there heads. Another strategy that the book describes is using the collage to portray ideas presented in a novel or passage discussed in class. Particular words or pictures can portray meanings and would help visual learners piece together the story better. All these strategies would be helpful in my future classroom, and I believe that discussing multiple intelligences is a great idea when planing lessons in a literature based class.