Educational apparatus employing playground equipment or the like
OwnerJean A. Phillipsinventor
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Abstract
Educational apparatus utilizing a plurality of objects of such form and size as to involve human learners, especially children, in physical activity while learning given letters of the alphabet. Each object is in a form and shape already familiar to the children by way of both appearance and name and the forms and names are selected on the basis that each object descriptive word or name contains a letter to be learned. The apparatus is especially designed to teach short vowels of the English language.
Claims3
Apparatus for a supplementary teaching aid to expose learners to the correct pronunciation of given letters of the alphabet, including means in the form of symbolic representations of objects respectively described by words familiar to the learner from prior experience and respectively containing the letters to be learned, characterized in that the letters are vowels and the objects are three-dimensional figures respectively in the form of playground equipment and the objects are arranged in the order of a, e, i, o and u.
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