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Reading Newsreport, 1972
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Educational Research, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Research
Peer reviewedGillooly, William B. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1973
Summarizes the work of those seeking to analyze orthography and the experimental, historical, and cross-national data which bear on the behavioral effects of writing system characteristics. (Author)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Literature Reviews, Orthographic Symbols
Peer reviewedMcCann, Edward – Reading, 1970
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Evaluation Needs, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Literature Reviews
Peer reviewedFry, Edward – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Diacritical Marking, Elementary Education
Download full textCHASNOFF, ROBERT E. – 1967
DATA SECURED FROM SECOND GRADERS INVOLVED IN A COMPARISON OF THE USE OF THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET (ITA) AND OF TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY WHILE IN THE FIRST GRADE ARE REPORTED. IN THE SECOND GRADE, 132 EXPERIMENTAL PUPILS TAUGHT BY ITA AND 123 CONTROL PUPILS TAUGHT WITH TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY WERE AVAILABLE FOR STUDY. A COMPARISON WAS MADE BY…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Methods Research
Ingebo, George – 1973
The purpose of this project was to test the effectiveness of i.t.a. in teaching reading to first grade students in the Portland Public Schools. Some of the elements of the experimental design included the following: one experimental--i.t.a.--and one control--traditional orthography (TO)--class was formed in each of ten schools; teachers and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Mathematics
DOWNING, JOHN – 1966
THE NECESSITY OF KEEPING AN EXPERIMENTAL, OPEN-MINDED OUTLOOK TOWARD FURTHER IMPROVEMENT IN THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET (ITA) IS STRESSED. A LIMITED AMOUNT OF RESEARCH HAS LED TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH IS AN IMPORTANT CAUSE OF DIFFICULTY IN TEACHING AS WELL AS IN LEARNING READING AND WRITING IN…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Experimental Teaching, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Enrichment
Lichtenstein, Jack – Elem Engl, 1970
Discusses a comparative study of three approaches used to minimize reading difficulties: words in color, the initial teaching alphabet, and the Lippincott Basic Reading Program. (SW)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Color, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Primary Education
Peer reviewedDowning, John – Reading World, 1979
Suggests that the initial teaching alphabet has been demonstrated to be an effective tool in teaching reading to bilingual students and to students with reading and cognitive disabilities. (TJ)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedDowning, John – Reading, 1977
Discusses the hazards that the English language contains for children learning to read, reports the Bullock Report's recommendation to judge I.T.A. on its merits, and describes research findings suggesting that the probability of reading failure is considerably greater when T.O. is used than when I.T.A. is used. (GT)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Foreign Countries, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Peer reviewedHayes, Robert B.; Wuest, Richard C. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Inservice Teacher Education
Shapiro, Bernard J.; Shapiro, Phyllis P. – 1973
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of two methods of reading instruction on children's ability to write original compositions. The subjects for this study were 684 first and second graders. Of the 293 first grade children, 130 were receiving their reading instruction in i.t.a., while the remaining 163 children were working in…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Grade 1, Grade 2, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Peer reviewedMendelsohn, Frances A. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1972
Study attempted to examine the long range effects of ITA. (MB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students
Reading Newsreport, 1972
Reprints an interview with the Director of the i.t.a. Foundation about the history of i.t.a. and plans for its continuing use in the United States. (MB)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Beginning Reading, Educational Innovation, Information Centers
HAYES, ROBERT B.; WUEST, RICHARD C. – 1967
FOR THE THIRD YEAR, THE FOLLOWING FOUR DIFFERENT METHODS OF TEACHING READING WERE CONTRASTED--(1) THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET, (2) A PHONIC, FILMSTRIP, WHOLE-CLASS APPROACH, (3) A WHOLE-WORD, ECLECTIC BASAL READER METHOD, AND (4) THE PRECEDING APPROACH SUPPLEMENTED BY A PHONICS PROGRAM. SOME 400 FIRST-GRADE PUPILS WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Grade 2, Grade 3, Initial Teaching Alphabet
