To her dismay, many of the students did poorly on the assess ment. After discussing the feedback with them, she began to suspect that many of them either did not know the color names well or could not associate them with the tones they represented. She knew that many of her students were strong visual learners but poor readers. To test her hypothesis, she -constructed a second categorizing Grid, this one a large poster with pictures of models representing the "season" types. She also made a poster with samples of the twenty-four colors nex to their names. The feedback on this assessment bore out her hypothesis: most of the students did very well in visually categorizing the colors with the "seasons" The instructor followed up by explicitly helping students connect the verbal and visual information in that and subsequent lessons.