9. The teaching apparatus of claim 8 wherein said display of graphemes is arranged, such that each of said sound generating devices is encircled by graphemes associated with at least one phoneme generated by said sound generating device.
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.