Method for learning to read using specialized text
OwnerSarah K. Blodgettinventor
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Abstract
A method of providing an instructional scaffold to person learning to read English language comprises displaying printed matter to the learner in the form of lists. Preferably text stories. The normal spacing of the letters in words is kept intact; in a first part of the method the rime portions of monosyllable words are bolded and made larger than the onset portions; and in a second part of the method, which also may be used independently, the sequential syllables of multisyllable words are emphasized by alternating plain font with bolded font and the long vowels are identified, for example by underscore, again with the words of any text being kept intact.
Claims8
An electronic device comprising:
- a computer including software configured to cause the computer to:
- ascertain a plurality of orthographic multisyllable words in a text;
- analyze and divide at least one orthographic multisyllable word of the plurality of orthographic multisyllable words into two or more syllables by examining the at least one orthographic multisyllable word;
- cause an electronic display to display a screen created by the software, the screen including a modified version of the text that adds emphasis to a first syllable of the two or more syllables by using an emphasized font, while leaving a second syllable of the two or more syllables in an original non-emphasized font, wherein spacing between letters of the plurality of orthographic multisyllable words in the modified version is in accord with a standard typography, wherein the two or more syllables in the at least one orthographic multisyllable word include sequential syllables of the at least one orthographic multisyllable word, the sequential syllables being emphasized by alternating plain font with bolded font;
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- graphically distinguish, in the modified version of the text, an orthographic long vowel from an orthographic short vowel.
A computerized method implemented by a computer, the computerized method comprising:
- ascertaining, by using software of a computer, a plurality of orthographic multisyllable words in a text;
- analyzing and dividing at least one orthographic multisyllable word of the plurality of orthographic multisyllable words into two or more syllables by examining the at least one orthographic multisyllable word;
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- causing an electronic display to display a screen created by the software, the screen including a modified version of the text that adds emphasis to a first syllable of the two or more syllables by using an emphasized font, while leaving a second syllable of the two or more syllables in an original non-emphasized font, wherein spacing between letters of the plurality of orthographic multisyllable words in the modified version is in accord with a standard typography, wherein the two or more syllables in the at least one orthographic multisyllable word include sequential syllables of the at least one orthographic multisyllable word, the sequential syllables being emphasized by alternating plain font with bolded font;
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- graphically distinguishing, in the modified version of the text, an orthographic long vowel from an orthographic short vowel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.