ELECTRONIC LEARNING AID FOR PROVIDING SEQUENCING AND SPELLING EXERCISES

Disclosed is an electronic learning aid having modes of operation to provide an interesting and effective learning experience to a student. In the preferred embodiment, inputs to the learning aid are effected via scanning of a bar code on a page by the student. In a first mode, the student is audibly directed to place depicted objects on the page in some specific sequence, as by alphabetical order of the first letter of the names of the objects. The student selects items in the sequence by scanning bar code associated with each item and the system audibly informs him of his progress in correctly identifying times of the sequence. In a second mode the student upon scanning the bar code associated with a depicted object is audibly directed to spell the name of that object. The system audibly informs him of his progress.