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Download full textDowning, John; Halliwell, Stanley – 1964
The British experiment with the Initial Teaching Alphabet was in its third year at the time of this report on the effectiveness of i.t.a. as a beginning reading program. Two groups of students were compared; one that started learning to read with i.t.a. and one that started with t.o. (traditional orthography). Reading and spelling tests were…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Longitudinal Studies
