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Download full textHo, Wai-Ching; And Others – 1970
To make this report more readable for teachers and still present all the data, it was compiled in two parts: (1) Report to Teachers and (2) Technical Report. The investigation was conducted (1) to compare the longitudinal effects of the initial teaching alphabet (i.t.a.) and traditional orthography (T.O.) beginning reading programs through and end…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Kindergarten, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewedFry, Edward – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Diacritical Marking, Elementary Education
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
MAZURKIEWICZ, ALBERT J. – 1967
A 3-YEAR STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF BEGINNING READING INSTRUCTION WITH THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET (ITA) AND WITH TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY (TO) ON PUPILS' READING ACHIEVEMENT IN BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA, IS REPORTED. THE SCORES OF KINDERGARTEN PUPILS ON THE LEE-CLARK READING READINESS TEST WERE USED TO INSURE THE HETEROGENEITY OF THE TREATMENT…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Inservice Teacher Education, Methods Research
Dykstra, Robert – 1968
During the first year of the program, 27 individual projects enrolling approximately 20,000 first-grade pupils were involved. Fifteen of these projects participated in a second-grade followup study. Some conclusions based on an analysis of data are (1) that prereading knowledge of letter names is the best single predictor of reading achievement in…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Kinesthetic Methods
