Cecilia Ann Brooks

US Patent:

42043433, May 27, 1980

Filed:

Sep 25, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/616594

Inventors:

Cecilia H. Brooks - New York NY

International Classification:

G09B 106

US Classification:

35 73

Abstract:

A background has positioned thereon at least one permanent first phoneme set. Each of the first phoneme sets has associated therewith a deck of cards, each card in the deck bearing an interchangeable second phoneme set which, when combined with the associated first phoneme set creates a proper word. The cards are held adjacent the first phoneme sets by pockets on the background. By changing the card in the pocket adjacent the first phoneme set different words are presented to the student in which the first phoneme set retains the same sound. In one embodiment the permanent first phoneme sets form the terminal portion of a word and in another embodiment form the initial portion of a word. Each of the pockets and their associated deck of cards may be of the same color but different from every other pocket and card deck so that if the student places a card in a pocket not having the same color, the student will know that the word formed is not a proper word.