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Download full textPitman, James
A case against using traditional orthography (T.O.) as a learning medium and in favor of using the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) is presented. The following points were noted: (1) Most children are taught to read as we and our ancestors before us were by an alphabet which is at least 1,000 years old and took its form from the convenience and…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Etymology, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Peer reviewedPitman, Sir James – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Norwegian, Phonics
Catach, Nina – Francais dans le monde, 1974
(Text is in French.)
Descriptors: French, Generative Grammar, Graphemes, Initial Teaching Alphabet
DOWNING, JOHN – 1966
THE NECESSITY OF KEEPING AN EXPERIMENTAL, OPEN-MINDED OUTLOOK TOWARD FURTHER IMPROVEMENT IN THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET (ITA) IS STRESSED. A LIMITED AMOUNT OF RESEARCH HAS LED TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH IS AN IMPORTANT CAUSE OF DIFFICULTY IN TEACHING AS WELL AS IN LEARNING READING AND WRITING IN…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Experimental Teaching, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Enrichment
Itzkoff, Seymour W. – 1996
This nontechnical guide for parents and teachers examines learning to read from infants' babbling to the fluent reading of children reading independently for pleasure. Chapter 1, "Baby Speaks," describes language development in infancy. Chapter 2, "Our Alphabet: Language by Ear and by Eye," presents the alphabetic system and…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Dyslexia, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy
