Patent Document ID: 5429513
Application ID: 08194477

Base Claim:
1. An interactive teaching apparatus for teaching graphemes, grapheme names, phonemes, and phonetics comprising: a display of graphemes wherein each of said graphemes is color-coded with at least one of a plurality of distinctive colors and each of said distinctive colors corresponds to a characteristic of sound production associated with at least one phoneme of at least one of said graphemes; a plurality of visually perceivable images, each of which is positioned adjacent to at least one of said graphemes, such that said adjacent image has a name including at least one phoneme of said at least one adjacent grapheme; a plurality of individually-activated, sound generating devices, each of which is associated with one of said graphemes and generates the name of said grapheme; and at least one sound pattern generating device for generating patterns of sounds comprising more than one of the names generated by said plurality of sound generating devices.

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Claim 3:
3. The teaching apparatus of claim 1 wherein said individually-activated, sound generating device is activated by light.