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Slings and Arrows
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Downing, John – Reading, 1972
Lists criticisms and responses to the i.t.a. (MM)
Descriptors: Initial Teaching Alphabet, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Up the Royal Road Again--in Search of Inconsistency in I.T.A
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Birnie, 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
Reading Research--1969
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Goodacre, Elizabeth J. – Reading, 1970
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Acquisition, Linguistics
To be or not to be
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McCann, Edward – Reading, 1970
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Evaluation Needs, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Literature Reviews
The Probability of Reading Failure in I.T.A. and T.O.
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Downing, 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