Method for improving vocabulary, concept knowledge, and decoding skills using semantic and linguistic sorting on a computing device

A computer accessible memory medium that stores program instructions for enhancing vocabulary, concept knowledge, and decoding skills in a person, wherein the program instructions are executable by a processor to perform:

• providing a stimulus item set comprising a plurality of stimulus items;
• displaying plurality of bins via a computing device, wherein each of the plurality of bins represents a category from a plurality of categories;
• presenting a stimulus item from the stimulus item set to the person, wherein the stimulus item belongs to one of the plurality of categories represented by the plurality of bins;
• requiring the person to select a bin from the plurality of bins representing a category to which the presented stimulus item belongs;
• determining if the person selected the bin correctly;
• and
• repeating said displaying, said presenting, said requiring, and said determining for each stimulus item in the stimulus item set;
• wherein said repeating improves vocabulary, concept knowledge, and decoding skills in the person.