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By Phil Bartle, PhD10. Combine Written Words with Simple Pictures: You learned to identify pictures, perhaps unconsciously, as part of your learning to read. If you are literate – and you are if you are reading this – you may be surprised to discover that many illiterate people can not identify line drawings like the ones used throughout this web site. A totally illiterate person has nothing on which to make a comparison; the drawings are black and white, not like real life; they are symbols, they are artificial. But they are comparatively easy to learn, easier that the more arbitrary characters of most alphabets (except, perhaps Chinese, which is based upon pictures). Once your participants learn to identify simple black and white line drawings, you can include drawings in your programme. One project, for example, would be to prepare a booklet, or a set of posters, where a commonly used and well known object, appropriate to the specific community, is drawn as a sketch by the participants, and a written word, identifying the same object, is written below it. Notes on all of the above (long document) Back to the list of principles Back to the principles handout ––»«––© Copyright 1967, 1987, 2007 Phil Bartle
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