ONLINE LITERACY SYSTEM

• US 20110306023A1
• Filed: 06/14/2010
• Published: 12/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jonathan Blank, Marion S. Blank
• Original Assignee: Jonathan Blank, Marion S. Blank
• Inventors: Blank, Marion S., Blank, Jonathan
• Application Number:
  US12/815,296
• Publication Number:
  US 20110306023A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/178
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 17/003 electrically operated apparatus or devices
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F

Abstract

In some embodiments, an online literacy system teaches one or all of the skills associated with competence in literacy, including total competence in reading, writing, and punctuation. The system may include a section where the parent or teacher signs up and creates a user account. The system may also include an adult-mediated keyboard and mouse section that is designed to help children learn how to use the keyboard and mouse. The system may also include a skills survey section to continually assess a child'"'"'s reading and writing skills. The system may also include a pre-reading section that includes exercises selected from a group consisting of sequencing exercises and letter writing exercises using a keyboard. The system may also include a reading/writing skills section that includes reading/writing exercises viewable on a display apparatus to collectively teach all four of the language skills of phonology, semantics, syntax, and text.

Claims

1. A language tutorial reading system, comprising:

a computer-implemented teaching module comprising a tutorial subsystem and a games system, wherein the teaching module delivers a plurality of content modules and automatically corrects errors committed by students and causes the play of audio tracks corresponding to words being taught to a student and wherein the teaching module requires students to enter input in a left-to-right sequence;

a computer-implemented assessment module to deliver skills surveys and provide feedback, wherein the assessment module causes the teaching module to skip content modules where skills surveys indicate that students have achieved predetermine objective scoring thresholds;

a computer-implemented customization module to manage user profiles and statistics;

a computer-implemented language module to manage a words database and problems module; and

a computer-implemented books module to serve books comprising words and problems from the language module.