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Golub, Lester S.; And Others – 1974
A handbook and teachers guide to phonics and the initial teaching alphabet (ITA) is given. The use of phonics to teach reading is described with the appropriate rules and steps. The principals of ITA and several practice lessons on using ITA are supplied. (WH)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Guides, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Liberman, Isabelle Y.; And Others – 1973
Speech research suggests why phoneme segmentation is more difficult than syllable segmentation. This study provides direct evidence of a developmental ordering of syllable and phoneme segmentation abilities in the young child. By means of a task which required preschool, kindergarten, and first grade children to tap out the number of segments in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Phonemes
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
Venezky, Richard L. – 1971
The assumption that the learning of letter names in their proper sequence is a prerequisite for literacy can be questioned. There is disagreement over the value of early letter-name training. It is variously said to aid in letter or word discrimination, to aid in attaching sounds to letters, and to interfere with both of these tasks. An analysis…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Letters (Alphabet), Predictor Variables, Reading Achievement
Toronto Board of Education (Ontario). Research Dept. – 1966
A two year pilot project studied difficulties of kindergarten-primary children learning to read via materials printed in the Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA) who, because of immaturity, late development, low ability, or inability to speak English, were expected to experience reading difficulty. Of 39 children in the first year of the study, 20 used…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, English (Second Language), Environmental Influences, 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
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Lahey, Benjamin B.; McNees, M. Patrick – Journal of Special Education, 1975
Descriptors: Alphabets, Discrimination Learning, Economically Disadvantaged, Exceptional Child Research
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Chisholm, Diane; Knafle, June – Reading Improvement, 1978
Supports the view that letter-name knowledge aids the child in learning to read. (RL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Graphemes, Letters (Alphabet)
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Fisher, Dennis F.; Lefton, Lester A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1976
Three experiments examine the information extraction process in adults and elementary school children reading paragraphs or words. In experiments 1 and 2 subjects were presented paragraphs to read and to search for specified targets. In experiment 3 subjects were asked to judge whether briefly presented pairs of letters were the same or different.…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
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Simmons, Barbara J. – Childhood Education, 1985
Describes three activities to reinforce recognition and formation of numerals and letters, to make classroom activities interesting and different, and to prepare a personalized gift that encourages the student's feeling of self-worth. Activities are presented in a clip-and-save format, with each carrying an identifying number and including…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Class Activities, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten Children
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Price, Gary Glen – Child Development, 1984
Finds that preschool children remember lower case letters better if generally encouraged by their mothers to produce verbal responses and if their mothers have specifically taught lower case letters. Discusses three mechanisms that may explain this effect: mnemonic support for the child; membership in sociolinguistic group; and the teacher's being…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Language Styles, Letters (Alphabet), Mnemonics
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Leaver, Betty Lou – Foreign Language Annals, 1984
A technique for rapid teaching of the Cyrillic alphabet uses a five-phase mnemonic strategy: attending to the materials, developing connections in class, practicing recall, using the information memorized as a basis for acquiring new information, and testing recall over time. The technique is based on current theories of information processing.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cyrillic Alphabet, Information Theory, Mnemonics
Strickland, Dorothy S.; Schickedanz, Judith A. – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2004
Help young students master concepts of print, phonemic awareness, and alphabet knowledge--the key predictors of early literacy success and school readiness. This resource will show what children need to know about print in order to become successful readers, how to connect children's development with learning about print, and how to provide a…
Descriptors: Phonemes, School Readiness, Oral Language, Child Development
Paskaleva, Elena; Zaharieva, Bojanka – 1995
This paper describes a computerized system for tagging language corpora that accommodates the special conditions in Bulgarian language research (notably, lack of advanced technology and corresponding user knowledge). SUPERLINGUA has been developed in the DOS environment with consideration for these conditions. Information on product use, users,…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Discourse Analysis
International Phonetic Association. – 1999
This guide contains concise information on the International Phonetic Alphabet, a universally agreed system of notation in use for over a century, for the sounds of languages, and guidance on how to use it. The handbook replaces the previous edition, "Principles of the International Phonetic Association," which has not been revised since 1949.…
Descriptors: Letters (Alphabet), Phonetic Transcription, Phonetics, Phonology
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