Patent ID: 6322367
Filing Date: 2001-11-27
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
A method for teaching the phonetic code by training the ear to hear letter sounds in spoken words which consists of an instructor:A. providing a set of written materials and an erasable board;B. reading to a student from the written materials,1. a statement of three steps that occur in reading, which steps are:a. learning the sounds assigned to each letter,b. saying those sounds out loud, one after the other,c. placing emphasis on the correct syllable as shown by a dictionary mark,2. statements that direct the reader to use a reference paragraph for extracting samples of words, and describe the number of letters in the alphabet, two major divisions of the alphabet, and two groups of vowels;C. stating that a macron denotes pronunciation of a vowel as long, and a breve denotes pronunciation of a vowel as short;D. saying the name of a letter, which letter is selected in alphabetical order from alphabetically arranged groups of letters wherein a first group comprises consonants, a second group comprises long vowels, and a third group comprises short vowels, and wherein all consonants are selected and written before long vowels are selected and written, and all long vowels are selected and written before short vowels are selected and written;E. audibly making the sound given to the letter spoken in step D, and stating that said sound is the sound given to said letter;F. for each sound given to the letter noted in Step E, writing a word containing that sound;G. pronouncing the word that has been written in Step F;H. directing the student to say audibly each sound of the letter designated in Step E with the instructor who repeats each sound of said letter a plurality of times;I. saying the word written in Step F audibly, using a method of providing the word selected from the following:1. asking the student to provide a word,2. asking the student to look at words on the written materials that serve to remind the student of words that can be offered, and3. the instructor's memory;J. writing the word provided in Step I on the erasable board;K. stating rules of word development and pronunciation;L. reading a list of special letter combinations from the written materials and writing on the written materials, additional special letter combinations taken from words offered;M. repeating steps D through J until the letters and letter sounds in the groups of consonants, long vowels, and short vowels, have been studied in their alphabetical order;N. directing the student to observe all that is written on the erasable board;O. directing the student to keep the written materials in view at all times;P. testing the student's ability to hear sounds of letters in words and correctly associate the letter sounds with the proper letters in words by:1. audibly pronouncing a test word which is a non-real, made-up word called a nonsense word,2. directing the student to listen to the sounds heard in said test word of step 1 and write such word on the worksheet of the written materials,3. asking the student to tell the instructor the letters and arrangement of letters used in spell the said test word,4. verbally correcting the student's written word by telling the student of any errors being made, said errors selected from among the group of:a. writing letters that are not heard,b. not writing letters that are heard,c. forcing whole words that have been learned into the spelling of test word;5. audibly pronouncing said test word and writing letters that correspond to the sounds of said word,6. directing the student to write another test word, and7. repeating the steps 1 through 5,8. directing the student to listen to pronunciation of a real multi syllabic word selected randomly from a dictionary and pronounced by the instructor and write the letters that correspond to the sounds of said word, and,9. repeating step 4,10. directing the student to randomly select a multi syllabic word from the dictionary and pronounce said word such that, by listening, letters that correspond to the sounds of the letters of the pronounced said word, can be written correctly, and,11. repeating step 4.