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Peer reviewedGoodacre, Elizabeth J. – Reading, 1970
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Acquisition, Linguistics
Download full textBellevue Public Schools, WA. – 1970
The achievement of four groups of children as measured by the Stanford Achievement Test was compared at the end of the first, second, and third year of school. The four programs used were the initial teaching alphabet (i.t.a.), Words in Color (WIC), Phonetic Keys, and teacher-designed analytic programs. At the end of the first year there appeared…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Primary Education
Pidgeon, D. A. – 1972
While it is appreciated that research on many of the details of early language learning is still required, one of the main themes of this paper is that solutions to the major problems of beginning reading are already known. In general, there has been a sufficiency of research, and what is now needed is action to implement the results already…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Orthographic Symbols
Burg, Dorothy Lee – 1971
Second-grade pupils who were taught reading in the first grade with the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) were compared with pupils who were taught reading with traditional orthography (TO). Seventy students from two schools in Moline, Illinois, were divided into a control group (using TO) and an experimental group (using i.t.a.) and were matched…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Grade 2
Peer reviewedShapiro, Bernard J.; Shapiro, Phyllis P. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1973
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Orthographic Symbols, Primary Education
Peer reviewedShapiro, Phyllis P.; Shapiro, Bernard J. – New England Reading Association Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Grade 2, Individual Needs, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Peer reviewedRobertson, Douglas J.; Trepper, Terry Steven – Reading World, 1974
Confirms that i.t.a. can be an effective tool with which to teach beginning reading of English to Mexican-American children. (RB)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Initial Teaching Alphabet
Peer reviewedShapiro, Bernard J.; Willford, Robert E. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comprehension, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Shapiro, Phyllis P.; Shapiro, Bernard J. – 1971
The effects on written composition of two reading approaches--traditional orthography (TO) and the initial teaching alphabet (i.t.a.)--are compared. Two hundred and ninety-three first graders and 391 second graders, half of whom had learned reading with TO and half with i.t.a., were each asked to write two compositions. These essays were rated on…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Creative Writing, Grade 1, Grade 2
Downing, John – Reading Soc Setting, 1967
Lecture given before the Annual Conference and Course on Reading (23d, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 10-21, 1967).
Descriptors: Copyrights, Discovery Learning, History, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Peer reviewedLanger, Philip; And Others – Reading Psychology, 1982
Contrasts the Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA) with traditional orthography in classes for slow readers at the junior high school level. Reports that students using the ITA demonstrated statistically superior reading gains. (HOD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Junior High Schools, Letters (Alphabet)
Downing, John – Educ Res, 1969
Descriptors: Initial Teaching Alphabet, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedHolmes, Jack A.; Rose, Ivan M. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Ho, Wai-Ching; And Others – 1972
To test the effects of teaching inner-city black children to read in kindergarten and first grade through the initial teaching alphabet, i.t.a. and traditional orthography (TO) groups were compared on their comprehension of single words, short sentences, and related skills. At the first grade level, reading, writing, and oral language skills were…
Descriptors: Black Students, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Kindergarten
Trost, David McRoberts-Adair – 1971
The purpose of this study was to determine whether children learning to read in the initial teaching alphabet (i.t.a.) and traditional orthography (TO) differ in general attitudes toward reading, in fluency in written expression, and in reading vocabulary and comprehension at the end of their second-grade school experience. Further, this study…
Descriptors: Initial Teaching Alphabet, Intelligence Quotient, Reading, Reading Achievement
