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Direct linkRoberts, Theresa A. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
In this article, I illustrate how research from cognitive science and the science of reading can inform research on the science of reading instruction. This purpose is accomplished by focusing on four recently published randomized control trials of instruction designed to teach alphabet letters to 3- and 4-year-old children (N = 342) attending…
Descriptors: Initial Teaching Alphabet, Reading Research, Reading Instruction, Preschool Children
Download full textDOWNING, JOHN – 1967
A SURVEY OF 34 KEY PUBLICATIONS ON THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET WHICH HAVE APPEARED SINCE JANUARY 1967 IS PRESENTED. THE PUBLICATIONS ARE CONSIDERED UNDER THE HEADINGS RESEARCH CONCLUSIONS, THE SECOND BRITISH I.T.A. EXPERIMENT, COMPOSITION IN I.T.A., FUTURE RESEARCH REPORTS, AND THE APPLICATION OF I.T.A. COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA ARE PROVIDED.…
Descriptors: Initial Teaching Alphabet, Reading Research
DOWNING, JOHN; AND OTHERS – 1967
A REACTION TO THE CRITIQUE CONCERNING I/T/A PREPARED BY MARSH AND PUBLISHED IN THE "READING RESEARCH QUARTERLY," FALL 1966, IS PRESENTED. IN THE AUTHORS' OPINIONS, MANY OF MARSH'S ASSUMPTIONS WERE FAULTY BECAUSE OF INADEQUATE INFORMATION, AND THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE I/T/A STUDENTS RECEIVED MORE AND BETTER MATERIALS AND INSTRUCTION IS UNFOUNDED…
Descriptors: Initial Teaching Alphabet, Orthographic Symbols, Reading Research, Review (Reexamination)
Peer reviewedDowning, John – Reading, 1972
Lists criticisms and responses to the i.t.a. (MM)
Descriptors: Initial Teaching Alphabet, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Peer reviewedAbiri, John O. O. – Reading Teacher, 1976
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Reading Instruction
Downing, John – Phi Delta Kappan, 1971
Descriptors: Alphabets, Basic Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Orthographic Symbols
Peer reviewedMazurkiewicz, Albert J. – Reading World, 1974
Reports on a visual-auditory analysis of each of the 1575 e-ending words found on the "Rinsland Vocabulary List" to determine whether the e should be considered as a diacritic. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Orthographic Symbols, Phonetic Transcription
MARSH, R.W. – 1966
A REACTION TO JOHN DOWNING'S REPORT ON THE I/T/A READING EXPERIMENT IS PRESENTED. DOWNING ASSUMED THAT THERE WAS NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL GROUPS ON IMPORTANT VARIABLES, BASED ON THE RESULTS OF THE KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST. IT IS CLAIMED, HOWEVER, THAT THE TEST USED IS APPROPRIATE FOR SMALLER SAMPLES. A MORE…
Descriptors: Initial Teaching Alphabet, Measurement Techniques, Reading Research, Research Methodology
SHOHEN, SAMUEL S. – 1967
AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP OF 461 CHILDREN WAS TAUGHT TO READ WITH THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET (I/T/A) BEGINNING IN KINDERGARTEN AND WAS READING TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY (T/O) MATERIALS BY THE END OF THE SECOND GRADE. THE CONTROL GROUP INCLUDED 462 CHILDREN WHO WERE TAUGHT TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY IN A PROGRAM CENTERED AROUND CONVENTIONAL BASAL READING…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Grade 2, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Mazurkiewicz, Albert J.; Kleederman, Frances – 1978
A study of the constraints on word recognition errors (miscues) readers make when reading a passage printed conventionally and one printed in a regularized orthography such as the initial teaching alphabet (i.t.a.) was undertaken with 50 second-grade students divided equally between children taught according to the orthographies being studied. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Miscue Analysis
Peer reviewedMazurkiewicz, Albert J. – Reading World, 1974
Discusses what studies of i.t.a. throughout the past eleven years have revealed for teachers and researchers in the field of reading. (TO)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials
Peer reviewedWard, Byron J. – Reading World, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Longitudinal Studies, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedBirnie, J. R. – Reading, 1970
Points out that i.t.a. is not without inconsistency and that the central difficulty lies with the schwa sound. The teaching of high frequency words containing the schwa (the, a) as exceptions seems advisable. Tables and bibliography. (RW)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Pronunciation, Reading Research
Peer reviewedDowning, John – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Reading Achievement, Reading Research
Albert, Elaine – 1994
A reading instructor interested in reliving the experience of learning to read for the first time attempted to read "Androcles and the Lion" in Shavian Alphabet. The would-be reader of Shavian faces a page of hooks and slants completely unfamiliar, but there is no translation problem. As soon as the reader can pronounce out loud the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Phonics, Primary Education
