New Horizons for Learning: Teaching and Learning Strategies

Learning Style Identification Exercise (ELSIE)

Harry Reinert

The following words are to be used with the ELSIE Instrument.
As each word is read, mark your response to the word in one of the four categories:

My response is:

VISUALIZATION:	Mental picture of the object or activity.
WRITTEN WORD:	Mental image of the word spelled out.
LISTENING:	No mental picture, sound carries the meaning.
ACTIVITY:	Physical/emotional feeling about the word.

Sample demonstration words: SINK, HOLD

1. pool	2. tall	3. summer	4. long	5. house
6. guilty	7. chicken	8. strange	9. liar!	10. beautiful
11. grass	12. hope	13. yellow	14. fear	15. five
16. God	17. read	18. foot	19. justice	20. baby
21. enemy	22. bag	23. shame	24. street	25. truth
26. story	27. happy	28. ground	29. hate	30. talk
31. ocean	32. good	33. paint	34. down	35. freedom
36. letter	37. think	38. love	39. running	40. ugly
41. law	42. angry	43. friend	44. paper	45. warm
46. above	47. kill	48. swim	49. hungry	50. bad

Permission to use ELSIE may be granted to any noncommercial user upon request.
Please write to Harry Reinert, 23806 -97th SW, Vashon Island, WA 98070 for more information.

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