Systems and methods for teaching phonics using mouth positions steps
AssigneePhonics Mouth Positions + Plus
InventorSukari N. Christian
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Abstract
A computerized method for teaching phonics using series of mouth positions specifying placement of lips, teeth and tongue includes, but is not limited to any one or combination of: obtaining predefined mouth positions and keywords for a plurality of sounds; identifying a sound, setting initial mouth positions to a predefined state for the identified sound, thinking of a keyword associated with the identified sound, and vocalizing the identified sound with mouth positions set and while thinking the keyword.
Claims21
A computerized method for learning phonics, the method comprising:
- providing a user interface displaying menu options associated with learning single letter sounds;
- receiving a selection of a menu option associated with learning pronunciation of a first single letter sound;
- and
- rendering a visualization of a series of mouth positions for pronouncing the first single letter sound.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions comprising:
- instructions to provide a user interface displaying menu options associated with learning of single letter sounds;
- instructions to receive a selection of a menu option associated with learning pronunciation of a first single letter sound;
- and
- instructions to render a visualization of a series of mouth positions for pronouncing the first single letter sound.
A method comprising:
- obtaining predefined mouth positions and keywords for a plurality of sounds;
- identifying a sound;
- setting initial mouth positions to a predefined state for the identified sound;
- thinking of a keyword associated with the identified sound;
- and
- vocalizing the identified sound with mouth positions set and while thinking the keyword.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.