Method for learning to read using specialized text
AssigneeNoah Text, LLC
InventorSarah K. Blodgett
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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.
Claims19
A method for teaching a learner to read which comprises:
- (a) displaying to the learner a multiplicity of lists or texts, each comprising a plurality of intact multisyllabic words along with monosyllabic words, wherein at least some of said multisyllabic words comprise long vowels;
- (b) associating an identifier in close proximity to each of said multisyllabic word long vowels;
- and,
- (c) displaying each said multisyllabic word with letters comprising two different fonts, one font alternating with the other font from one syllable to the next syllable within said multisyllabic word;
- wherein each word remains intact.
A system comprising a multiplicity of texts for teaching a learner to read, each of which texts communicates a story or narrative, which comprises:
- (i) a first set of texts created by the method which comprises:
- (a) displaying to the learner a multiplicity of lists or texts, each comprising a plurality of intact monosyllabic words with few or no multisyllabic words, wherein some of the monosyllabic words comprise long vowels;
- (b) associating an identifier in close proximity to each of said long vowels;
- and,
- (c) displaying each monosyllabic word of said plurality with letters comprising a first font and a second font fonts, wherein the letters of the rime portion each word are in a first font and the letters of the onset portion of each word are in a second font, wherein each word in the text remains intact;
- wherein both fonts are of the same typeface and the font of the rime portion is more intense than the other font and larger in size than the font of the onset portion;
- and,
- (ii) a second set of texts created by a method which comprises:
- (d) displaying to the learner a multiplicity of lists or texts, each comprising a plurality of intact multisyllabic words along with intact monosyllabic words, wherein at least some of said multisyllabic words comprise long vowels;
- (e) associating an identifier in close proximity to each of said multisyllabic word long vowels;
- and,
- (f) displaying each said multisyllabic word with letters comprising a third font and a fourth font, one font alternating with the other font from one syllable to the next syllable within said multisyllabic word, wherein each word in the text remains intact;
- wherein both fonts are of the same typeface and one of the fonts is more intense than the other font.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.