Interactive Phonics Board

An apparatus for literacy development, comprising:

• a. a board or set of boards which, taken as a whole, comprises:
• i. a phoneme building area arranged as a plurality of phoneme word building placeholders, wherein each phoneme word building place holder is perceptibly delineated,
• ii. and a grapheme building area arranged as a plurality of grapheme word building placeholders, wherein each grapheme word building place holder is perceptibly delineated
• b. a plurality of phoneme manipulatives,
• c. and a plurality of grapheme manipulatives.

An apparatus for literacy development, comprising:

• a. a first whiteboard comprising:
• i. a grapheme manipulative presentation area comprising a plurality of grapheme presentation placeholders, wherein each grapheme presentation placeholder is perceptibly delineated,
• b. a second whiteboard embedded in a backing material comprising:
• i. a phoneme manipulative presentation area comprising a plurality of phoneme presentation placeholders, wherein each phoneme presentation placeholder is perceptibly delineated,
• ii. and an interactive word building area, wherein the word building area further comprises:
• 1. a phoneme building area arranged as a plurality of phoneme manipulative placeholders, wherein each phoneme word building place holder is perceptibly delineated,
• 2. and a grapheme building area arranged as a plurality of grapheme word building placeholders, wherein each grapheme word building place holder is perceptibly delineated and an arrangement or mechanism is provided to perceive a one-to-one mapping of each grapheme word building placeholder to an associated phoneme word building placeholder,
• c. a plurality of phoneme manipulatives, wherein each phoneme manipulative comprises:
• i. a magnetic substrate,
• d. a plurality of grapheme manipulatives, wherein each grapheme manipulative comprises:
• i. a magnetic substrate,
• e. a storage compartment that conceals stored manipulatives,
• f. a writing tool suitable for marking whiteboards,
• g. and an enclosure capable of containing the first whiteboard, the second whiteboard, the plurality of phoneme manipulatives, the plurality of grapheme manipulatives, the storage compartment and the writing tool.