Education and demonstration – Language – Spelling – phonics – word recognition – or sentence formation
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-01
2008-04-01
Pezzuto, Robert (Department: 3714)
Education and demonstration
Language
Spelling, phonics, word recognition, or sentence formation
C434S156000, C434S167000, C434S171000, C434S172000, C434S175000, C434S322000, C434S323000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11311527
ABSTRACT:
Educational devices, educational systems, and methods of teaching and learning reading are provided. The devices, systems, and methods can include an indicium reader, such as an optical character recognition device, for reading indicium from objects. Such objects can be three-dimensional blocks and the indicium can be a letter, word, sentence, number, or some other type of readable character(s). The devices, systems, and methods can include a display for displaying the read indicium and an audio producing device for producing audio corresponding to the read indicium. The educational devices can be a self-contained, portable unit with the indicium reader, the display, and the audio producing device supported by a housing of the educational devices.
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