Patent Document ID: 8529270
Application ID: 11009708

Base Claim:
1. An interactive system for instructing and assessing achievement of preschool students with enablement of instructor assistance utilizing a computer with a display screen, a speaker and manually operated means for indicating and selecting a displayed component on the display screen, comprising: means for generating an animated cartoon with a plurality of displayed components recognizable by a preschool student on a first portion of the display screen along with an accompanying vocal story on the speaker; interactive means for enabling the manually operated means for user selection of one of the plurality of displayed components in the generated cartoon; the cartoon and accompanying vocal story requesting use of the manually operated selecting means to select a displayed component having a predefined aspect representative of an educational goal; means responsive to operation of the manually operated means selecting the displayed component having the predefined aspect for indicating achievement of the educational goal; and means for generating a written instruction on a second portion of the display screen to provide instructions for the instructor in assistance of the preschool student.

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Claim 7:
7. An interactive instructing and assessing system as claimed in claim 1 further including means for generating a second cartoon story with a plurality of displayed components recognizable by a preschool student on the display screen along with an accompanying vocal story on the speaker wherein the cartoon and story display and pronounce words and letters in the words and how changes in a letter of a word changes the word to a different word.