Your top three intelligences:
5 Musical: You like the rhythm and sound of language. You like poems, songs, and jingles. You enjoy humming or singing along with music. You probably remember things well when they are associated with music or rhythm. Try to incorporate sounds into your lessons, such as using a familiar tune, song, or rap beat to teach spelling rules, or to remember words in a series for a test. Here are some other ways to use your musical intelligence:
The scores for your other five intelligences:
Self, Social, Spiritual, Nature, Language
3.86 3.86 3.57 3.29 2.86
5 Musical: You like the rhythm and sound of language. You like poems, songs, and jingles. You enjoy humming or singing along with music. You probably remember things well when they are associated with music or rhythm. Try to incorporate sounds into your lessons, such as using a familiar tune, song, or rap beat to teach spelling rules, or to remember words in a series for a test. Here are some other ways to use your musical intelligence:
- Create a poem with an emphasis on certain sounds for pronunciation.
- Clap out or walk out the sounds of syllables.
- Read together (choral reading) to work on fluency and intonation.
- Read a story with great emotion — sad, then happy, then angry. Talk about what changes — is it only tone?
- Work with words that sound like what they mean (onomatopoeia). For example: sizzle, cuckoo, smash.
- Read lyrics to music.
- Use music as background while reviewing and for helping to remember new material.
- Use rhymes to remember spelling rules, i.e., "I before E except after C."
- Arrange cartoons and other pictures in a logical sequence.
- Sort, categorize, and characterize word lists.
- While reading a story, stop before you've finished and predict what will happen next.
- Explore the origins of words.
- Play games that require critical thinking. For example, pick the one word that doesn't fit: chair, table, paper clip, sofa. Explain why it doesn't fit.
- Work with scrambled sentences. Talk about what happens when the order is changed.
- After finishing a story, mind map some of the main ideas and details.
- Write the directions for completing a simple job like starting a car or tying a shoe.
- Make outlines of what you are going to write or of the material you've already read.
- Look for patterns in words. What's the relationship between heal, health, and healthier?
- Look at advertisements critically. What are they using to get you to buy their product?
- Trace letters and words on each other's back.
- Use magnetic letters, letter blocks, or letters on index cards to spell words.
- Take a walk while discussing a story or gathering ideas for a story.
- Make pipe cleaner letters. Form letters out of bread dough. After you shape your letters, bake them and eat them!
- Use your whole arm (extend without bending your elbow) to write letters and words in the air.
- Change the place where you write and use different kinds of tools to write, ie., typewriter, computer, blackboard, or large pieces of paper.
- Write on a mirror with lipstick or soap.
- Take a walk and read all the words you find during the walk.
- Handle a Koosh ball or a worry stone during a study session.
- Take a break and do a cross-lateral walk.
The scores for your other five intelligences:
Self, Social, Spiritual, Nature, Language
3.86 3.86 3.57 3.29 2.86