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STORIES TrOLD WITH FIC",TURES
Using pictures with story tellingi help IfIeveral way.s
a Picture let people '%ee' what is happening in dthc: story.
s A series of pictures can serve as .1 Cquid. foN the story teller,
* Pictures con be used to help a grouf, t.'d.!a ;?oy from th;
uwr experionce.
* Health workers can use flash card. c-r,Thp thai ;.in discussing heaith problems
with groups of villageis, letting the group try to explain wha, ishappening in
the pictures. This way students discover the hoalth mes-ag., themselves and
tell it to the teacher (rather than thp ieacher ,-t cihn l .
This set of flash cxrds is based tn pictures from pa.ge 132 of Wwr, There iSNo Doctor.
In C hapter 1 1 we discussed theI use of pictures on flash cards and flip charts.
But pictures can also b-e useri t)tell stories in comic -strips,photonoveis, color'
slides (transparencie), fi-mstrips, or mvingjpictures irnovien).
Comics and photonovels
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than any other wriv~ernmta!. As A:resij;-, ri, a. '.m' 1ooks --r ,. photo,7ovels
have been produced o,;n a vat i..'ZtV !-0 he,-1tt, tircs.A fel". of them aexezcllont, but
many are a boring i-11xture of preaching a-;d bpiavwashinq, ma..ske:d by 3 silly story.
In miar,'.cf,,xinries, e~soe-,:.,lv irn pi*:Llpe read comic bookfls more
Instead of usina Prepared matzierials, healjth ,..Orkorsc {n mak-u their owin :oric
strips on health therri.vs, or organize sche" child:ren to mak.-e them. The\. ,-an
make up stories,and daw oictures to g, -%iiht-im, or ,:.op .piciucs from odher
corntic books, fsomeone.h-as r)ca.rfwra, ih:: gr'.o:.Apevz:,n wa;/ h.re,; ,ne1O m;31,e
phoonvels using local as
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