Non-Verbal reasoning skills include understanding, remembering, and making visual sequences, interpreting the meaning of and relationships between the visual presentations or pictures.
Some things you could do to support children’s growth in non-verbal abilities include:
Construct, draw, or create visual representations of content
Take picture notes as well as word notes for content
Pre-read the visuals in a chapter
Create a mind-map of content
Use metaphors to make connections between content
Analyze paintings, sculpture, music, dance
Experiment with different mediums to create art projects
Build with Legos or K’Nex
Do puzzles, create puzzles
Identify similarities and differences between shapes in the world around you
Create complicated color patterns and tessellations
Draw objects from unusual perspectives
Practice elaboration: How many details can you add?
Create a new picture by changing a picture already made
Create a larger picture by adding to a picture already made
Combine two pictures into one new picture
Practice showing emotion, movement, humor in drawing
Practice drawing symmetry
Ask “How does (a concept) look, sound, taste, smell, feel?”
Use guided imagery/visualization
Practice activities in How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci by Gelb
Participate in such programs as Georgia State Saturday School and Camp Invention
Field trips to science museums, art museums, nature centers
Use the software program Making More Music (voyager.learntech.com)
Use Enrichment Sites on www.fultongifted.org
Use resources such as Tin Man Press, Bright Ideas, Nature Watch, Delta Education, Museum Tour, Gifted and Talented Workbook Series, Creative Learning Press, Creative Teaching Press, Critical Thinking Co.
Learn more at http://www.visualspatial.org/
Some things you could do to support children’s growth in non-verbal abilities include:
Construct, draw, or create visual representations of content
Take picture notes as well as word notes for content
Pre-read the visuals in a chapter
Create a mind-map of content
Use metaphors to make connections between content
Analyze paintings, sculpture, music, dance
Experiment with different mediums to create art projects
Build with Legos or K’Nex
Do puzzles, create puzzles
Identify similarities and differences between shapes in the world around you
Create complicated color patterns and tessellations
Draw objects from unusual perspectives
Practice elaboration: How many details can you add?
Create a new picture by changing a picture already made
Create a larger picture by adding to a picture already made
Combine two pictures into one new picture
Practice showing emotion, movement, humor in drawing
Practice drawing symmetry
Ask “How does (a concept) look, sound, taste, smell, feel?”
Use guided imagery/visualization
Practice activities in How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci by Gelb
Participate in such programs as Georgia State Saturday School and Camp Invention
Field trips to science museums, art museums, nature centers
Use the software program Making More Music (voyager.learntech.com)
Use Enrichment Sites on www.fultongifted.org
Use resources such as Tin Man Press, Bright Ideas, Nature Watch, Delta Education, Museum Tour, Gifted and Talented Workbook Series, Creative Learning Press, Creative Teaching Press, Critical Thinking Co.
Learn more at http://www.visualspatial.org/