What is a bulletin board?

Bulletin boards are a useful way

• to make information available to a community or a group
• to create interest in events, ideas, or products
• to create motivation to read, and
• to display artwork and other paper items of interest.

Here are some kinds of information to put on bulletin boards:

• Advertisements
• Artwork
• Information about meetings and classes
• Maps
• Medical or community development information
• News items
• Photos
• Posters
• Messages
• Stories

A bulletin board is a place for posting or displaying information.

• Chalkboards
• Pinboards
• Magnetic boards

Also, sides of buildings can be used like a bulletin board.

Here is an example of a bulletin board:

• Bulletin board

• Creating a print-rich environment

• Concept module: bulletin board
• In overview module: Glossary (Literacy): B
• 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.]

Page content last modified: 15 February 2000

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