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Download full textKarr, Chadwick; And Others – 1974
This study compared the relative effectiveness of the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i. t. a.) program for teaching beginning reading with a matched program using traditional orthography (T. O.). Three waves of first grade students in ten predominately white elementary schools were randomly assigned to i. t. a. and T. O. classrooms. Summary evaluation…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Reading
Bushnell, Margaret – 1971
A study conducted in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, elementary schools, the first schools to adopt the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) approach to teaching basic reading in this country, revealed that children who started with i.t.a. had significantly less reading failure than children with traditional orthography (T.O.) training. Although the i.t.a.…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Elementary Education, Followup Studies, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Diederich, Paul B. – 1973
This bulletin summarizes and interprets some of the main findings of "Survey of the Literature on Methods and Materials in Reading," by Martha J. Maxwell and George Temp, Chapter IV of "The Information Base for Reading: A Critical Review of the Information Base for Current Assumptions Regarding the Status of Instruction and Achievement in Reading…
Descriptors: Initial Teaching Alphabet, Phonics, Reading Achievement, Reading Development
