This is a series of ongoing lesson plans using kinesthetic techniques to enhance language learning.

The lessons are useful in the regular classroom, as well as with students whose learning style is not predominantly looking and listening.

Some of the skills learned with their academic benefit in parenthesis

a. forward, backward and sideways movement (reading and writing patterns on the page);
b. clockwise and counter-clockwise directions (telling time);
c. identifying right side and left side of body (learning to read and write);
d. developing memory (basic to all academic skills);
e. understanding sequencing (reading comprehension);
f. using arms in opposition to legs (right-left brain coordination);
g. learning what a set of 4 is, and about multiple sets of 4, 8 and 16 counts (mathematics);
h. hearing and feeling the strong beat of the rhythm, the accented part of the step (syllables and reading) ;
i. learning patience with self and cooperation with others (communication skills);
j. finishing what is begun; the steps, the sequence, completing the whole (completing work in a way that others can understand);
k. finding that learning can be fun while moving enthusiastically (enthusiasm increases energy for learning).

Lessons
1. Kinesthetic Language Learning - Forming Shapes for Alphabet Letters
2. Kinesthetic Language Learning - Lesson Plans for Printing ‘b’ and ‘d’
3. Kinesthetic Language Learning - About Syllables
4. Kinesthetic Language Learning - Developing Concentration
5. Kinesthetic Language Learning - Game to Practice Reading and Writing Left to Right
6. Kinesthetic Language Learning - Sentence Diagramming
7. Kinesthetic Language Learning - Punctuation Exercises
8. Kinesthetic Language Learning - Learn Spelling by Typing

Article and Illustration by Susan Kramer

Related Links
What Is Your Child's Learning Style - Auditory, Visual or Kinesthetic?
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Rhythmic Motor Skills for School Age Children
Math while Moving - Free Online Lessons

The content of this article is included in
Kinesthetic Math and Language Lessons -
You´ll find 33 beginning and advanced kinesthetic math and language lessons in 78 pages for kids of all abilities in grades K-6, including teaching all ages the one-hand alphabet with large photos of the letter shapes.


And, for ages 2 to 5, more than 10 kinesthetic learning lessons, plus rhythms, dances and exercises in this workbook Rhythms and Dances for Toddlers and Preschoolers