Abstract: A system and method for teaching a student how to write using a phonetic word distinction technique is herein disclosed. The method can comprise the step of providing to a student a set of charted grapheme-phoneme pairs, communicating to a student each word in a story in order of the story, in any manner other than a written form of the word, prompting the student to encode a phoneme of the set of phonemes with a grapheme, receiving first selections of the graphemes to form a set of graphemes in the order, and displaying in the order the graphemes associated with the first selections. Each word is a phonetic word if all grapheme-phoneme pairs between the spoken word of the word and a conventional spelling of the word each match at least one charted grapheme-phoneme pair within the set of charted grapheme-phoneme pairs, and a non-phonetic word if not.

Abstract: A system and method for teaching a student how to read using a phonetic word distinction technique is herein disclosed. The method can comprise the step of providing to a student a set of charted grapheme-phoneme pairs, presenting to the student words in a story in order of the story. Each of the word being a phonetic word if all grapheme-phoneme pairs between a spoken word of the word and a conventional spelling of the word each match at least one charted grapheme-phoneme pair within the set of charted grapheme-phoneme pairs, and a non-phonetic word if not. The words in the story can be presented as follows, for each of the phonetic word, displaying a first subset of graphemes of a set of graphemes while remaining graphemes of the set of graphemes are hidden, while for each of the non-phonetic word, displaying all letters of the non-phonetic word contemporaneously.

Abstract: A system and method for teaching a student how to read using a vowel priming method is described. The method can comprise the step of displaying to a student a vowel grapheme of a set of graphemes while remaining graphemes of the set of graphemes are hidden. The set of graphemes can be arranged such that when completely unhidden together can graphically construct a word. Each grapheme encodes a phoneme. The phoneme associated with the set of graphemes can together be a set of phonemes that construct the word. The method can also comprise the steps of pausing to allow the student to determine the phoneme associated with the vowel grapheme, revealing the remaining graphemes in one or more subsets of graphemes, and pausing after each revelation to allow the student to determine one or more of the phonemes associated with the subset of graphemes revealed in the revelation.

Abstract: A system and method of teaching a user how to write using a plurality of chart is described herein. The method can comprise the step of communicating a word to a student in any manner other than a written form of the word. The spoken word of the word can comprise a set of phonemes in an order such that when the set of phonemes is spoken, the set of phonemes form the spoken word. The method can also comprise the step of prompting the student to encode each phoneme of the set of phonemes with a grapheme, receiving first selections of the graphemes to form a set of graphemes in the order, and displaying in the order the graphemes that can be associated with the first selections. The set of graphemes can form an unconventional spelling of the word.