15. The teaching apparatus of claim 8 wherein said graphemes characterized by vowel sound production comprise a, a, ae, a-e, ai, a(ll), a(r), au, aw, ay, e, e, , -e, ea, ee, ei, eigh, er, ew, ey, i, i, i-e, igh, ir, o, o, -o, o-e, oi, oo, oo, or, o(r), ou, ough, ow, oy, u, u, u-, ur, u-e, y, and -y; said graphemes characterized by voiced sound production comprise b, d, g, j, th, v, w, z, and h; said graphemes characterized by unvoiced sound production comprise ch, f, h, k, p, s, sh, t, th, and wh; said graphemes characterized by nasal sound production comprise m, n, -ng, and -nk; and said graphemes characterized by a mixture of characteristics of sound production comprise l, q, r, x, and y.
8. An interactive teaching apparatus for teaching graphemes, grapheme names, phonemes, and phonetics comprising: a display of graphemes wherein each of said graphemes is color-coded with at least one of a plurality of distinctive colors and each of said distinctive colors corresponds to a characteristic of sound production associated with at least one phoneme of at least one of said graphemes; a plurality of visually perceivable images, each of which is positioned adjacent to at least one of said graphemes, such that said adjacent image has a name including at least one phoneme of said at least one adjacent grapheme; a plurality of individually-activated, sound generating devices, each of which is associated with at least one of said graphemes and generates at least one phoneme of said at least one grapheme; and at least one sound pattern generating device for generating patterns of sounds comprising more than one of the phonemes generated by said plurality of sound generating devices.