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Gehsmann, Kristin M.; Mesmer, Heidi Anne – Reading Teacher, 2023
This article addresses the characteristics of learners in the emergent stage of literacy development and describes two instructional practices that facilitate the development of the alphabetic principle and concept of word in text.
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Phonological Awareness
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Katarzyna Patro; Antonia Gross; Claudia Friedrich – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Preschool children often confuse letters with their mirror images when they try to read and write. Mirror confusion seems to occur more often in line with the direction of script (e.g., left-to-right for the Latin alphabetic script), suggesting that the processing of letter orientation and text directionality may be interrelated in preliterate…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction
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Roberts, 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
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Kaye, Elizabeth L.; Lose, Mary K. – Reading Teacher, 2019
Letter learning is nuanced, complex, and essential to the development of an effective literacy processing system. Forming and naming letters, rapidly differentiating between visually similar letters, and recognizing their sound correspondences are foundational to becoming a reader and writer. Indeed, control over letters affects monitoring,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy
Palandra, Maria; Cardone, Romolo – 1978
This Italian alphabet book designed for kindergarten and first grade students presents each letter in upper and lower case form accompanied by an illustration and a single sentence caption. The sentence contains two or more words that begin with the letter in question. The book has a teacher's introduction and is illustrated by pen-and-ink…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Bilingual Education, Books, Childrens Literature
Downing, John – Phi Delta Kappan, 1971
Descriptors: Alphabets, Basic Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Orthographic Symbols
Dewey, Godfrey – 1971
Objective data on the relative frequency of occurrence of the multifarious phoneme-grapheme correspondences of English, which the author dealt with in an earlier book, Relative Frequency of English Spellings, are applied to the learning of reading. The target audience includes the educator, the textbook author/publisher, and the classroom teacher.…
Descriptors: English, History, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Orthographic Symbols
Albert, Elaine – 1986
Intended to help children learn phonics and to learn how to use phonics, this handbook is modeled on the 15th century hornbook. The handbook is divided into three parts: (1) "What Went Wrong?"; (2) "HOW to Teach Someone to Read by Beginning with Basic Phonics"; and (3) "Special Problems." Nineteen references and a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Phonemic Alphabets, Phonics
Pitman, James – 1973
This pamphlet deals with the principle of systematizing traditional orthography (TO) to produce initial teaching media and the application of that principle in Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.). Part 1 discusses: three causes of failure in literacy, the need for systematizing TO for the better learning of literacy, TO research with infants,…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Orthographic Symbols
Block, J. R. – Elementary English, 1973
Reviews research studies of the i.t.a. and suggests areas for further investigation. (MM)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Literature Reviews, Reading Instruction
Pidgeon, D. A. – 1972
While it is appreciated that research on many of the details of early language learning is still required, one of the main themes of this paper is that solutions to the major problems of beginning reading are already known. In general, there has been a sufficiency of research, and what is now needed is action to implement the results already…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Orthographic Symbols
Downing, John – Reading Soc Setting, 1967
Lecture given before the Annual Conference and Course on Reading (23d, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 10-21, 1967).
Descriptors: Copyrights, Discovery Learning, History, Initial Teaching Alphabet
British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1975
This bibliography cites periodicals, books, sections of books, and articles having to do with the initial teaching alphabet. Entries include American and European publications, most published since 1965. (CLK)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Bibliographies, English (Second Language), Initial Teaching Alphabet
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Petty, Walter T.; And Others – Elementary School Journal, 1974
Descriptors: Initial Teaching Alphabet, Phonetics, Reading Instruction, Spelling
Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation, London (England). – 1966
A series of lessons designed to explain what the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) is and to prepare prospective teachers of i.t.a. materials and methods as thoroughly as possible is presented. The eight lessons of the course, for each of which a separate booklet is provided, include the following: (1) The difficulties of traditional orthography…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Correspondence Study, Initial Teaching Alphabet
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