Patent ID: 8784114

Claim:
A computer implemented system comprising: a pre-school level assessment computer program stored in a non-transitory machine readable memory, the computer program executable on a processor of the computer system so as to realize the steps of— interacting with a teacher user, using the computer system interface features, to select a knowledge area for assessment of a pre-school student; playing a cartoon story associated with the selected knowledge area, the cartoon story including a plurality of displayed components recognizable by a preschool student on the display screen along with an accompanying vocal story on the speaker; further playing an accompanying voice message that requests a user to select one of the displayed components; concurrently with the cartoon story, displaying textual guidance for a teacher user on a display screen of the computer system, the textual guidance including display of the text of the voice message to enable the teacher user to assist a student user by the teacher repeating the text of the voice message; and wherein the cartoon and story is configured to display and pronounce words and letters in the words, and assess the student's understanding of how changes in a letter of a word changes the word to a different word.