The study investigated into the effect of pictorial reading strategy on the learning of proverbs and riddles with view to elucidating the need to uphold making children to be well- grounded in their first language. The study adopted quasi- experimental pre-test-post-test design. Three intact classes of Primary Six pupils were assigned to two experimental and one control groups. The treatment took a period of six weeks. Data were subjected to inferential statistics of Analysis of Co-variance (ANCOVA). The results showed a significant effect with the pre-test level,(F(2, 164) = .837;p> 0.05) and the post-test,(F(1,164)=12.668; p<0.05; R