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Download full textHo, Wai Ching; And Others – 1972
Third year results (Grade 2) are reported for the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) study, selected as an experimental reading medium because its symbol-sound consistency makes learning to read a simpler task. Instruction was begun at the kindergarten level. The study investigated whether the i.t.a. program helps improve the reading skills of the…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Kindergarten Children
Downing, John – Educ Res, 1969
Descriptors: Initial Teaching Alphabet, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement
Bruininks, Robert H.; And Others – Elem Sch J, 1970
Results of the study seem to suggest the presence of general deficits in the auditory receptive and vocal expressive abilities of poor reading disadvantaged children, who learned to read using the initial teaching alphabet series rather than the traditional orthography approach. (Author)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Listening Comprehension
Passanante, Gail R. – 1979
To investigate the effect of the Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA) on spelling proficiency, a study was devised whereby seventh grade students who had been taught reading in the first and second grade using ITA were compared with students who had been taught in the traditional manner. Each group of students was tested on the spelling sections of two…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Conventional Instruction, Elementary Education, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Tanyzer, Harold J.; And Others – 1968
The purpose of this study was to investigate the longitudinal effects of i/t/a and T.O. instruction on students' reading, spelling, and language abilities at the end of third grade. It was primarily concerned with determining whether the effects of early reading instruction, which were not statistically evident at the end of second grade, became…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 3, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Graduate School of Education. – 1966
THIS SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTAINS MATERIALS ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF READING ABILITY AND READING INSTRUCTION. UNANNOTATED REFERENCES ARE PROVIDED TO 110 DOCUMENTS DATING MAINLY FROM 1960 TO 1966. RESEARCH REPORTS, JOURNAL ARTICLES, CONFERENCE PAPERS, AND UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS ARE LISTED. SUBJECT AREAS INCLUDED ARE (1) BASAL READING, (2) THE…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Bibliographies, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Dykstra, Robert – 1970
The relationships between prereading measures of auditory discrimination, letter knowledge, and intelligence and reading ability were investigated for pupils who completed grades 1 and 2 in four different types of instructional programs--conventional basal reading programs, i/t/a programs, language-experience approaches, and code-emphasis…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Grade 2
