Visual educational device for teaching literacy
OwnerPatricia Catherine Hastieinventor
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Abstract
An educational device (11) for visually modeling words or numerals. The device including a plurality of inverted U-shaped rods (15) and a plurality of balls (17), each ball (17) being movable between a non display position and a display position. When the device is used to represent a word, the number of rods (15) having a ball in the display position corresponds to the number of phonemes in the word and the number of balls (17) or a respective rod (15) represents the number of letters in a respective phoneme. When the device visually represents a number, each rod having a ball in the display position represents a unit from which the number is formed, and the number of balls in a respective display position can represent the relative size of a respective unit.
Claims14
An educational device for visually modelling at least one word wherein the device includes a plurality of display zones, each display zone having a plurality of icons herein each icon is movable between a non display position and a display position in the display zone, wherein each display zone with an icon therein corresponds to a phoneme in the at least one word and the number of icons in each respective display zone represents the number of letters in the respective phoneme.
A method of modelling at least one word, the method including visually representing each phoneme of the at least one word as a discrete collection of at least one icon, wherein the number of icons in each collection is selected based on the number of letters in each respective phoneme.
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