US 12,431,036 B2
Method for learning to read using specialized text
Sarah K. Blodgett, Ledyard, CT (US)
Filed by Sarah K. Blodgett, Ledyard, CT (US)
Filed on Nov. 3, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/501,273.
Application 18/501,273 is a continuation of application No. 15/640,019, filed on Jun. 30, 2017, granted, now 11,935,422.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/357,648, filed on Jul. 1, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2024/0071250 A1, Feb. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. G09B 17/02 (2006.01); G09B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC G09B 17/02 (2013.01) [G09B 17/00 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a computer including software configured to cause the computer to:
ascertain a plurality of orthographic multisyllable words in a text;
analyze and divide at least one orthographic multisyllable word of the plurality of orthographic multisyllable words into two or more syllables by examining the at least one orthographic multisyllable word;
cause an electronic display to display a screen created by the software, the screen including a modified version of the text that adds emphasis to a first syllable of the two or more syllables by using an emphasized font, while leaving a second syllable of the two or more syllables in an original non-emphasized font, wherein spacing between letters of the plurality of orthographic multisyllable words in the modified version is in accord with a standard typography, wherein the two or more syllables in the at least one orthographic multisyllable word include sequential syllables of the at least one orthographic multisyllable word, the sequential syllables being emphasized by alternating plain font with bolded font; and
graphically distinguish, in the modified version of the text, an orthographic long vowel from an orthographic short vowel.