Education and demonstration – Language – Spelling – phonics – word recognition – or sentence formation
Patent
1994-02-10
1995-07-04
Cheng, Joe H.
Education and demonstration
Language
Spelling, phonics, word recognition, or sentence formation
434156, 434169, 36441901, 273302, G09B 100, G09B 1900
Patent
active
054295130
ABSTRACT:
An interactive teaching apparatus and a method for teaching graphemes, i.e., letter symbols of an alphabet; grapheme names, phonemes; and phonetics are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a display of graphemes wherein each of the letters is color-coded with at least one of a plurality of distinctive colors. Each of the distinctive colors corresponds to a characteristic of sound production associated with at least one phoneme or speech sound of at least one of the graphemes. The letters are accompanied by a plurality of visually perceivable images, each of which is positioned adjacent to at least one of the graphemes and has a name including at least one phoneme of at least one adjacent grapheme. The apparatus also includes a plurality of individually-activated, sound generating devices, each of which is associated with one of the graphemes and generates the name or at least one phoneme associated with the grapheme. The apparatus further includes a sound pattern generating device for generating patterns of sounds comprising more than one of the names or the phonemes generated by the plurality of sound generating devices. An interactive teaching method for teaching graphemes, grapheme names, phonemes, and phonetics comprises the steps of utilizing a display of graphemes, such as that described above to learn the phonemes associated with the letters used to form words, and forming words, phrases, and sentences phonetically with a set of cards. Each of the cards depicts at least one of the graphemes and the image positioned adjacent to the grapheme on the display. Each card also is color-coded with the same distinctive color used to color-code the grapheme on the display.
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