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Peer reviewedGoodacre, Elizabeth J. – Reading, 1970
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Acquisition, Linguistics
Peer reviewedHolmes, Jack A.; Rose, Ivan M. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Download full textDUNN, LLOYD M.; AND OTHERS – 1967
AN INTERIM REPORT OF A 3-YEAR STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET (ITA) AND THE PEABODY LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT KITS (PLDK) WITH UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN IN BEGINNING READING AND IN STIMULATING ORAL LANGUAGE AND VERBAL INTELLIGENCE IS PRESENTED. FIVE EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS AND ONE CONTROL GROUP WERE DERIVED FROM 17 CLASSES IN…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Dunn, Lloyd M.; Mueller, Max W. – 1966
The purpose of this study was to investigate, with underprivileged first-grade children, the efficacy of the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) in teaching beginning reading and of the Peabody Language Development Kit (PLDK) in stimulating oral language and verbal intelligence. From 17 classes in nine schools, four groups, consisting of 100, 104,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Research, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Pitman, James – 1963
Two topics related to teaching reading are presented. The first reports findings of research on the initial teaching alphabet (i.t.a.). Between September, 1961, and April, 1963, four- and five-year-old children were introduced to the new medium in six termly intakes. Data on the first three groups to enter are reported. After 1 year of being…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Graphic Arts, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Acquisition
Hahn, Harry T. – 1968
The Oakland County, Michigan, first-grade study of the effectiveness of three approaches to beginning reading was extended to the second and third grades to investigate differences in their effects on reading and related language development. Each of 11 research teams chose three classrooms which used either the Initial Teaching Alphabet approach…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Acquisition
Downing, John A. – 1971
Four paradoxes appear in research on learning to read: (1) the ability to name letters is a good predictor of reading readiness, yet letter-naming training does not help children learn how to read; (2) visual discrimination is often better in poor readers than in good readers; (3) learning to read two languages is easier than learning to read one;…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedBackman, Joan; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
Examines the development of word recognition skills of 80 school children (grades two-four). Good beginning readers rapidly learn to recognize high frequency words from visual input alone and simultaneously expand and consolidate spelling sound correspondences. Younger and poor readers rely more on phonological information in word decoding.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3
