Verbal instructions are valuable for students with auditory strengths. Listening helps them learn. They may remember names but forget faces. Students with a strong auditory learning style profile may benefit from listening to recorded books, or other curricular material that is presented in an aural format. Podcasts and audio books are ideal for these types of learners.

These students may also be distracted by outside noise, therefore listening with headphones is a good solution for them.

On this resource page are examples of recorded "books" created by teachers in an inservice course during the 2007-08 school year. Below are the handouts to help you create this type of material.

You should first find the material you want to record. It can be a book, an article, a poem or any other piece of writing you want to share with the auditory learners. Record this using a program such as Audacity (free download at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download) or GarageBand (on Apple computers.)