Patent ID: 6358059
Filing Date: 2002-03-19
Classification: E02D,G09B

Abstract:
A device for teaching the combining of letter sounds to produce a word, said device having a plurality of coaxial rotatable wheels wherein said plurality of wheels includes at least a first wheel, a second wheel, and a third wheel, said wheels being layered and rotatably secured to one another, said second wheel and said third wheel having a sufficiently decreasing periphery thereby permitting viewing of each of said wheel's periphery, each of said plurality of wheels being divided into multiple letter containing sections along said periphery; wherein, a portion of said multiple letter containing sections of said wheels have consonant sounds formed by a single consonant and vowel sounds formed by a single vowel; wherein, at least a portion of said multiple letter containing sections of said first wheel and said third wheel have consonant sounds formed from more than one consonant or a combination of one or more consonants with a silent vowel; and wherein at least a portion of said multiple letter containing sections of said second wheel has vowel sounds formed from more than one vowel or a combination of one or more vowels with one or more consonants, wherein the rotation of said wheels to place said consonant sounds adjacent said vowel sounds forms a word.