Abstract: A system for enhancing reading performance operates on a network-connected server with software executing from a non-transitory medium at the server providing an interactive interface for a user connected to the server via a browser link. There is a data repository coupled to the server. The interactive interface provides a word search exercise for the user for improving the user's reading performance, displays a passage comprising a first number of words and a search list with a second number of words that each appear at least once in the passage, the second number smaller than the first number, and when the user clicks on every word in the passage for a word that appears in the search list, that word is indicated in the list as found, until all the words in the search list have been indicated as found.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and tools for teaching rapid and accurate decoding and encoding words. In decoding (reading), the invention delineates the concept of sound units (a combination of blendable letter sounds) and their use to accurately decode words systematically and efficiently. In encoding writing or making words), the invention utilize a combination of wheels to help children with limited motor skills to easily and accurately encode thousands of words and word like combinations so as to learn and familiarize themselves with words and their structures. The same wheels can also be used to create math wheels and sorting wheels that can train children's early math skills in adding, deducting, multiplication, subdivision, and other important abilities.

Abstract: An educational picture book including a device having a number of rotating indicator wheels in alignment one with another, each of the indicator wheels including indicia thereon such as the letters of the alphabet, numbers, pictures, braille, symbols, or combinations thereof, whereby pictures or words in the books can be expressed by alignment of the indicator wheels.

Abstract: An educational dynamic method of teaching language is disclosed wherein a set of geometrically-shaped objects represent the parts of speech of natural human languages. The objects are animated to undergo shape change, act alone, and interact with other of the objects to represent symbolically the actions performed on or by each part of speech. Frameworks defined by the grammatical case patterns of the represented language provide the boundaries for arrangement of the objects. Each object is configured to logically represent the complements of the class of words pertaining to the part of speech represented by the object. Animation of the objects in the form of shape changes and dynamic interaction within and between the objects assists in representing the words, expression and action, whether it be voluntary, involuntary, active or inactive. Each object contains the vocabulary words consistent with the level of the language being taught which fall into the class or part of speech represented by that object.

Abstract: A moulded plastics casing comprising a lid and a base accommodates two moulded plastics rotatable spools formed with projecting operating knobs. A roll of flexible plastics material or paper having letters of the alphabet printed thereon is provided on one of the spools and has its free end engaged within a slot in the other spool so that the letters can be viewed through a reading window in the lid. The letters are arranged in a series of lines parallel to the axes of rotation of the spools and the lines form sets such that, as the lines of a set are viewed successively and one at a time through the reading window by turning one of the operating knobs, a word is progressively built up within the reading window. As each line appears in the window the letter or letters on that line should be sounded (reading) or the names of the letters recited (spelling). The words on the roll are related to one another by having sounds in common so as to form a "phonic progression".