What is a teaching aid?

What is a teaching aid?

Definition
	A teaching aid is a tool used by teachers, facilitators, or tutors to
	help learners improve reading and other skills illustrate or reinforce a skill, fact, or idea, and relieve anxiety, fears, or boredom, since many teaching aids are like games.

Kinds
	Here are some kinds of teaching aids:
	What is an alphabet book? What is an alphabet chart? What is a calendar? What is a chart? What is an easy reader? What is a flash card? What is a flip chart? What is a poster? What are sentence building cards? What is a sentence building grid? What is a syllable wheel? What are word building cards? What is a word slide?
	Computers and other equipment such as video and audio cassettes can also be used as teaching aids.

See also
	What is tape assisted reading? Making teaching aids Using teaching aids

Context for this page:

Concept module: teaching aid
In overview module: Glossary (Literacy): T
In modular book: Glossary of literacy terms
In document collection: Reference materials
In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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