Why use

Visual Aids
for
Learning?
help make your
instruction meaningful
for students
help you reach your
objectives by providing
emphasis in a different
way than speaking
they enable you to appeal to
more than one sense at the
same time, thereby increasing
your student’s understanding
and retention level

can be a very powerful tool to

enhance the impact of your
presentations
To make visuals effective, use them
to:

focus the audience’s attention

reinforce the key components of
your verbal message
stimulate and maintain interest
illustrate complex concepts that
are difficult to visualize
aid the audience’s comprehension
increase retention
it is usually helpful to have
an assistant to visualize a
particular topic

Advertisements
Announcements
News clippings
Notices
Pamphlets
 usually painted to depict a background scene appropriate to the
story being told
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may use it to write the

sentences, words and phrases
you wish to teach
may use it to test what the
students have learned
may use it to illustrate the
meaning of words, phrases and
sentences
may use to clarify certain points
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helps the learners to understand the
concepts of long-short, big-small,
etc. better because they could see
the concrete objects
using real items which are used in
the classroom to illustrate and teach
vocabulary
actual items or objects brought into
the classroom as examples or as
aids to be talked or written about
and use in teaching
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visual illustrative media for depicting the

relation between main idea and
supporting facts

Purposes:

For showing relation by means of facts

and figures
To show the continuity of process
For presenting abstract idea
For showing the development of structure
To stimulate thinking