Many students, including myself, are visual learners and need visual aids in order to fully understand and interpret a specific topic. Since I have had some time working in a preschool classroom, I have realized that visual aids can be very helpful for younger learners in preschool to first grade. They help younger students visualize and interpret the information that is being delivered to them. I used three different sites to make different instructional materials that could work as visual aids when teaching about colors as well as numbers.
The first site that I used was WordItOut (http://worditout.com). On this site, I made a cloud of the color names so that students can learn to visualize and identify the color names by looking at them rather than seeing the actual color.
The second site I used was MindMeister (http://www.mindmeister.com). I made a web organizer to showcase the various colors. I think this will help younger students understand the actual color and the spelling of the color name. This is a hard connection to make especially for preschoolers and kindergartners.
The third and final site that I used was Education.com (http://www.education.com). On this site, I made a worksheet that could be used as a visual aid for numbers. This worksheet is very practical for preschoolers as well as first graders. It is a matching activity that requires students to match the number name to the number symbol. This worksheet can really help younger students recognize numbers as well as the number name spellings.
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