Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation, London 426p.

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i/t/a as a Language Arts Medium.
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Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation, London
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426p.; Proceedings of the 7ourth International
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i.t.a. Conference, McGill University, Montreal,
Quebec, Aug. 1967
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Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading, Deaf
DESCRIPTORS
Children, Disadvantaged Youth, English (Second
Language), Exceptional Child Education, *Initial
Teaching Alphabet, *Language Arts, *Primary Grades,
*Reading Instruction, *Reading Research, Remedial
Reading, Secondary School Students, Spelling, Writing
ABSTRACT
An overall view of the Initial Teaching Alphabet
(i.t.a.) and its use with various groups of people are presented. The
first part contains five addresses in which thy, historical background
for i.t.a. is reviewed and insight into the man who invented it is
given. Part 2 presents research reports of prefirst-grade and
first-grade beginning reading with normal children, Included in Part
3, Special Groups, are reports of instruction with the disadvantaged
child, the exceptional child, the remedial reader (both children and
adults), and those who speak English as a second language. In Part 4,
Methods and Measures, teaching methods are discussed as well as the
problem of transition from i.t.a. to traditional orthography, the
effect of i.t.a. cn children's indepena:nt and creative writing, and
administrative problems which are concerned with initiating i.t.a. in
school districts and carrying on research designed to investigate its
effectiveness. As the first part began with the history of i.t.a.,
the last section ends with a discussion of its future. Hope is
expressed that educators will not disregard the opportunities that
are offered by i.t.a. Tables and references are included.
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The 1.I.a. Foundation st Hotstrs University
Hemp stead, N.Y. 11560
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Confercnce
Proceedings of the Fourth International
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
August 1967
Published for
Thel.t.a. Foundation at Hotstra University, Hempstead, N.Y. 11550
)y Sir Isaac Pitman (Canada) Limited, Toronto, Canada
CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTICN
- HISTOR!CAL BACKGROUNDS
PART i
False Professionalism and the Eighth Virtue
1.
Theodore B. Dolmatch
2
The Historical Background of i.t.a.
2.
7
Sir James Pitman, K.B.E.
i.t.a. -- Not Spelling Reform, But Child and Parent
3.
18
Godfrey Dewey
of Spelling Reform
The Boston Reading Experiment (1866-1879): The Evaluation
4.
of an Early Educational Innovation Which Was a Forerunner
to the Initial Teaching Alphabet
47
William E. Gillooly
The Treatment of Language Sounds in the Design of an Initial
5.
Teaching Alphabet and in Spelling With It
53
Sir James Pitman, K.B.E.
CO
PART II - THE NORMAL CHILD
60
Pre-First Grade Studies
A.
i.t.a. -- Kindergarten or First Grade?
1.
Bernard J. Shapiro
61
Robert E. Willford
The Effect of i.t.a. and T.O. When. Beginning Reading In-
2.
Harvey Alpert
struction in Kindergarten
Harold J. Tanyzer
66
Lenore Sande}
78
First Grade Studies
B.
A Two-Year Longitudinal Study to Determine the Ability
1.
of First Grade Children to Learn to Read Using the Early-
Robert A. McCracken
82
to-Read i.t.a. Program
Robert E. Hayes
A Three-Year Look at i.t.a.
2.
100
Richard C. Wrest
The Eff',ct of Two Different Orthographies on Beginning
3.
Eleanor R. Kirkland
113
Reading
Fourth Year Results -- Bethlehem i.t.a. Study
4.
120
Albert J. Mazurkiewicz
Richard L. Montesi
131
i.t.a. for Whom?
S.
1.t.a. In Canada
138
C.
i.t.a. in the Vancouver Schools
1.
138
C. n. Shoemaker
i.t.a. in Montreal; Action Research
2.
Janet E. Woolley
146
150
PART III - SPECIAL GROUPS
TheOlsadvantaged Child
A.
150
A 1966-67 Pilot Program in i.t.a. for First Grade Dis-
1.
advantaged Children
Helen G. Myers
151
Use of the Initial Teaching Alphabet -- a Proposal for
2.
Increasing Its Effectiveness with Disadvantaged Children
Ivan M. Rose
Jack A. Holmes
159
3.
The Efficacy of the Initial. Teaching Alphabet and the
Peabody Language Development Kits with Southern Dis-
advantaged Children ic the Primary Grades: A Final Report
After Three Years
Lloyd M. Dunn
173
The Exceptional Child
8.
186
1.
The Peabody- Chicagc- Detroit Reading ?roject -- A Report
of the Second-Year Results
Richard W. Woodcock
188
i.t.a, and Mentally Handicapped Adolescents
2.
Margaret Wallace
197
Initial Teaching Alphabet and the Emotionally Disturbed
3.
206
rostitutionalized Boy
Mary Jackson
Using the i.t.a. with a Group of First Grade Deaf Children
4.
and Its Implications in Relation to Reading, Speech and
Language
211
Sister Francis Solano
Utilizing Pitman's Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) with
5.
Infant Deaf Children
214
John K. Duffy
The Initial Teaching Alphabet As An Adjunct to Articulation
6.
217
Therapy
Ronald Goldman
222
Remedial Reading
C.
Individualized Teaching Accomplished in Remedial Reading
1.
223
Marvin G. Baker
Some Observations Concerning i.t.a. As An Improved Approach
2.
to Remedial Reading Therapy
225
Raymond E. Laurita
The ere of i.t.a. in Remedial Reading with Third and Fourth
3.
Graders
239
Rita E. McNerney
Remedial
Adult
0.
244
Remedial Reading Method and Materials for Adult Illiterates
1.
_:mploying the Pitman Initial Teaching Alphabet
247
Vera L. Hannenberg
The Utilization of i.t.a. Booklets with High School and
2.
Adult "Non-Readers"
259
Calvin Edinger
Samuel
The Missouri Adult Vocational Literacy
3.
266
A. Steel Artley
vl
i.t.a. -- The Marginal Man and Military Service
4.
270
Colin Stevenson
276
English as a Second Language
E.
The Use of the Initial Teaching Alphabet in Teaching
1.
English As A Second Language to Speakers of Spanish
278
James Larick
282
Marion Loring
English As A Second Language
2.
285
PART IV - METHODS AND MEASURES
286
Teaching Methods
A.
Ti,e Rationale for the Program in Early-to-Read: The
1.
287
Vera Ohanian
....
Influence of Medium on Method
295
Lura M. Carrithers
i.t.a. and Teacher Education
2.
The Direct Instruction Program for Teaching Reading
3.
300
Elaine C. Bruner
307
Transition
B.
The Effect of Three Different Methods of Transition on
1.
Robert E. Willford
Tested Reading Achievement
309
Bernard J. Shapiro
The Effects of Transition From i.t.a. to T.O. on Reading
2.
Harold J. Tanyzer
and Spelling Achievement
Harvey Alpert
323
Lenore Sandel
339
Linguistics and Writing
C.
The Great Grade School Scandal
1.
341
George Riemer
A Comparison '.ietween the Oral and Written Responses of
2.
First-Grade Children in i.t.a. and T.O. Classes
Lenore Sandel
Harvey Alpert
348
Harold J. Tanyzer
Some Linguistic Problems in Using the Initial Teaching
3.
356
Dorothy Z. Seymour
Alphabet
361
Administrative Problems
D.
An Approach to i.t.a. - A Beginning
1.
362
Thomas L. Herres'
Teamwork - A Necessary Conditn of Research in Public
2.
372
William T. Callehn
Schools
Programs for Experimentation and Innovation in Education
3.
373
Richard J. McCowan
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377
PART V - THE FUTURE
379
J. R. Block
Criticisms of i.t.a.
1.
New Dimensions in Assessing and Evaluating the Initial
2.
392
Robert Bainbridge
Teaching Alphabet
The Language Arts Curriculum -- After i.t.a.
3.
399
Rebecca W. Stewart
Options and Opportunities in i.t.a. Teaching and Learning
4.
Rychard Fink
404
410
CONCLUDING REMARKS
412
CON=ERENCE PARTICIPANTS
v111
INTERNATIONAL 1.t.a, CONFRENCES
First international I.t.a. Conference
1964
Oxford Jniversity
Oxford, England
(No proceedings published)
Second international i.t.a. Conference
1965
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
(Proceedings available through the 1.t.a. Foundation)
Third International i.t.a. Conference
1966
Cambridge University
Cambridge, England
(No proceedings published)
Fourth International I.t.a. Conference
1967
McGill University
Montreal, Oqebec, Canada
(Proceeding; avalfable through the i.t.a. Foundation)
Fifth International I.t.a. Conference
1968
Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York, U.S.A.
To be held from July 17 - 20, 1968
( Proceedings to be published by the 1.t.e. Foundation)
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