Abstract: A typewriter and the like utilized as an instructional aid device has control means for teaching alphabetical letter recognition, the sequence of letters in forming words and the association of a word to the picture of an object. A coded card, the preferred control means, carries the word related to the object, and optionally the picture of the object, and includes a series of perforations related to the word, which perforations are adapted to be penetrated by attachments carried on the key bars only when a key is struck in proper sequence. If an incorrect key is struck the device does not function. Card advancing means are provided to advance the card after each correct key is struck in proper sequence. In the absence of a control card, the typewriter and the like can be operated in a conventional manner.