Patent ID: 7018210

Claim:
A method of teaching and learning reading using a group of universally connectable blocks, wherein the group includes at least two blocks of different colors, wherein each of said blocks comprises at least three faces, all of said faces of each block bearing a type of reading indicia, the color of the faces and the type of reading indicia being the same on all of said faces of any one block, and wherein all blocks of the same color have the same type of reading indicia and each type of reading indicia is assigned to a unique color, the method comprising: (a) selecting a first and a second block from said group of universally connectable blocks, said selecting based solely on the reading indicia or the color of the blocks; (b) selecting any indicium-bearing face of said first block and any indicium-bearing face of said second block; (c) connecting said first block and said second block so that the connected blocks are horizontally adjacent and the selected indicia-bearing faces of each block are visible from the same direction; and (d) viewing the color or selected indicia of said connected blocks to determine whether said indicia appear together to form an intelligible reading unit.