G - Physics – 09 – B
Patent
G - Physics
09
B
G09B 1/32 (2006.01) G09B 17/00 (2006.01) G09B 19/04 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2625945
A manipulative teaching aid designed to develop the discourse level of language development in children. The invention builds narrative or discourse skills, which connect speech with written language. The present invention has a soft, flexible body member from which a plurality of arm and leg members protrudes. Additionally, there are a plurality of indicia that removably attach to the body, leg, and arm members. The arm members serve as a means to attach the invention to the child or teacher. The leg members hold removable indicia that represent action sequences of a story including an initiating event, reactions to the action sequences, internal responses/feelings resulting from the action sequences, and the resolution of the story. The body member holds removable indicia that create the identity of the character in the story and the setting of the story. The teaching aid may be worn, touched and moved by a person. Further disclosed is a tactile teaching aid adapted to improve a person's discourse skills includes a braided strand having a plurality of indicia secured thereto that represent the elements of a story. The indicia are disposed along the strand from an upper to lower portion of the braid in the sequential order of the elements of a logical, comprehensive story. The elements of a story, in sequential order, are the characters represented: (by a pom-pom), the setting (by a star), the initiating event or problem (by a shoe), an internal response of the character to the problem (by a heart), a plan by the character to solve the problem (by a hand), the actions by the character to carry out the plan (by a plurality of beads), the direct consequences of the action (by a bow), and the resolution of the problem (by a plurality of beaded hearts).
Borden Ladner Gervais Llp
Mindwing Concepts Inc.
LandOfFree
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