9. A universal, multi-sensory learning aid as in claim 1 wherein at least one marginal border of plastic includes at least one aperture in the form of a punch hole or handle to serve as a means to store or carry said card.
1. A universal, multi-sensory learning aid for assisting child and adult learners having either text or visual learning styles in language and writing comprehension, comprising: a) a generally planar rectangular paper sheet having marginal edges; b) disposed on said paper sheet inside said marginal edges are a series of printed borders defining: i) a first area on which is disposed a real object image; ii) a second area having a plurality of writing guidelines comprising solid lines defining margins within which writing is to be confined, and including dashed lines between said solid line margins defining orthographic element direction or size; and iii) a third area for free-hand drawing or printing by said learners; c) said second area includes letters or ideographs spelling the word for the object depicted in the first area, said word covering only a small portion of said second area, said word being disposed with respect to said solid and dashed guidelines to show the proper location for writing said word, and said second area including at least one full line between opposed side margins of said paper sheet for practice writing of said word by said learner; d) said first, image area is disposed above or to one side of the writing area, and the drawing area is disposed adjacent a bottom margin of said paper sheet; e) said sheet being provided with a surface selected from at least one of a coating, and a first and a second smooth transparent rigid but flexible plastic sheet between which said paper sheet is laminated to form a robust, reusable, coated or laminated card assembly, and in the case of said laminated card assembly, said plastic sheets being aligned congruent to each other, said paper sheet being smaller in area than said plastic sheets such that there is a clear marginal border around said paper sheet, and the corners of said coated or laminated card assembly are rounded to prevent injury to children; f) said surface coating and said plastic of said plastic sheets is selected to permit writing and drawing with a marker and for easy erasing of the marker writing and drawing; g) a transparent pocket of sheet plastic overlying substantially the extent of said image area, said pocket including a slot for insertion of a separate image therethrough, so that when a separate image is inserted in said pocket through said slot, said separate image is viewable by said learner in place of the original image provided in the card, whereby said learner personalizes said learning aid by insertion of a separate image personal to the learner into said pocket via said slot; and h) said laminated card learning aid is easily handled by children, may be cleaned and reused, is robust to provide extended useful life, and is universal with respect to both text and visual learning styles by providing, for predominantly text learners, sufficient space for either a left-handed or right-handed learner to engage in kinesthetic association by practice writing activity on the card without obscuring the text word or the image when practicing the letters on the second area guidelines, and for predominantly visual learners, providing a real object image that permits visual learning association with the word without double inductive reasoning being required, and is personalizable by said learners.