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Henriksen, Emmaline – 1971
This is a booklet in the Project IDEALS series which deals with the teaching of reading skills. It generally describes what reading is and what the basic principles of a reading program are. Various methods and approaches to teaching reading are listed; they are the language experience approach, phonic methods, the linguistics approach, programmed…
Descriptors: Individualized Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Experience Approach, Programs
Ingebo, George – 1973
The purpose of this project was to test the effectiveness of i.t.a. in teaching reading to first grade students in the Portland Public Schools. Some of the elements of the experimental design included the following: one experimental--i.t.a.--and one control--traditional orthography (TO)--class was formed in each of ten schools; teachers and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Mathematics
Download full textKarr, Chadwick; And Others – 1974
This study compared the relative effectiveness of the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i. t. a.) program for teaching beginning reading with a matched program using traditional orthography (T. O.). Three waves of first grade students in ten predominately white elementary schools were randomly assigned to i. t. a. and T. O. classrooms. Summary evaluation…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Reading
Mazurkiewicz, Albert J. – 1973
This paper provides a rationale which rejects misinformation, assumptions, and biases as bases for decision making on the use of i.t.a. in teaching reading and writing to primary school children. A discussion is provided which questions the reality of professionalism in teacher-administrator populations as well as the reality of a concern for the…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Conference Reports, Elementary Education
Winkeljohann, Rosemary, Comp. – 1976
This selective bibliography is one of nine documents compiled to provide titles and descriptions of useful and informative reading documents which were indexed into the ERIC system from 1966 to 1974. The 190 entries in this section of the bibliography concern methods in teaching reading and are arranged alphabetically by author in one of the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education
Mazurkiewicz, Albert J. – 1973
Based on its use with first graders in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for an eleven year period, the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) appears to have a number of advantages for reading instruction. These years of research have indicated that the advantages of i.t.a. are that it permits the child to: advance more rapidly in reading and writing…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Creative Writing, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Philp, Hugh; Goyen, Judith – 1973
This paper analyzes some of the conditions affecting the introduction of innovations in reading instruction in post-war Britain. The relationship between these innovations and research is explored. Section one presents background information and discusses possible causes for the influx of innovative techniques in reading instruction in the 1950s…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Experience Approach
