Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for interactively teaching phonics via an electronic device. The present invention enables a user to provide at least two forms of user input: oral and written, and the system recognizes these forms of input to provide feedback and load subsequent content based on user performance. An exemplary embodiment provides a sequence of lessons, each lesson teaching a new phoneme and reviewing previously-introduced phonemes through a series of activities. The activities can include: flipcard differentiation between a correct word including a phoneme and an incorrect word not containing the phoneme, trace and trace race for practicing writing a letter corresponding to a phoneme, Vocab for building vocabulary, story for reading a story comprised of learned words, and a review.