Answer to Question #308365 in English for Jnls

Question

How and why do students learn skills of 'visual discrimination'?

Answer 1

Visual discrimination is the ability to recognize details in visual images. Help develop a student's ability to discriminate shapes by encouraging the student to visually identify pictures of shapes and their features at different distances. There are numerous activities that students can do to help them develop visual discrimination skills. Encourage students to visually discrimination through matching photos, letters, words, pictures, or other objects and materials.

Teaching visual discrimination skills is all about helping children pay attention to detail. Visual discrimination skills will help children begin to notice the similarities and differences in letters like b and d or x and y.  It also allows students to identify and recognize the likeness and differences of shapes/forms, colors and position of objects, people, and printed materials. In order to learn to read print, students will need to develop their visual discrimination skills.