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Peer reviewedGoodacre, Elizabeth J. – Reading, 1970
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Acquisition, Linguistics
Download full textMazurkiewicz, Albert J. – 1971
This longitudinal study compared the longterm effects of beginning reading instruction in traditional orthography (TO) and the initial teaching alphabet (i.t.a.) on two pupil populations comparable in intelligence, socioeconomic status, and preschool experience. Teacher and school factors were rigorously controlled. A continuous comparison of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Creative Development, Elementary Education
SANDEL, LENORE – 1967
TWO FIRST GRADE CLASSES, ONE USING THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET (ITA) AND ONE USING TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY (TO), WERE RANDOMLY SELECTED FROM A SCHOOL IN EACH OF 4 SCHOOL DISTRICTS. THE TOTAL SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 100 CHILDREN IN ITA CLASSES AND 100 CHILDREN IN TO CLASSES. THE CLASSES WERE GROUPED HETEROGENEOUSLY. THE PINTNER- CUNNINGHAM PRIMARY…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Correlation, Creative Writing, Grade 1
Magnuson, Ralph William – 1968
To determine if children who have been taught to read using the i.t.a. would write stories with a vocabulary more nearly approaching the variety and extent of their oral vocabulary than would children who had been taught traditional orthography (T.O.), comparisons were made between 82 experimental (i.t.a.) and 80 control (T.O.) subjects matched on…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Ability
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; And Others – Educational Research, 1967
Two independent pilot studies in Britain investigated the effect of the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) on the creative expression and verbal skills in written composition of young children. The Staffordshire study compared a normal week's free compositions written by 54 children using the traditional alphabet with the compositions of a similar…
Descriptors: Creative Expression, Early Childhood Education, English Instruction, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Diederich, Paul B. – 1973
This bulletin summarizes and interprets some of the main findings of "Survey of the Literature on Methods and Materials in Reading," by Martha J. Maxwell and George Temp, Chapter IV of "The Information Base for Reading: A Critical Review of the Information Base for Current Assumptions Regarding the Status of Instruction and Achievement in Reading…
Descriptors: Initial Teaching Alphabet, Phonics, Reading Achievement, Reading Development
