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	Initial Teaching Alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Initial Teaching Alphabet was developed by Sir James Pitman (the grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman, the inventor of a system of shorthand, who himself took up the issue of spelling reform with a variant typeface) as a tool for teaching children to read English.
		The firm which began this proposal likes to have the abbreviation of ita with periods after the letters.
		There are two main uses of the concept: one which uses the distinct typeface, whose characters are all minuscule; and one which attempts to use both minuscule and capital letters of the existing typewriter keyboard or the basic ASCII character set to take the place of the distinct characters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet (475 words)

	ITA - The advantages and disadvantages of the initial teaching alphabet. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This alphabet, borrowed from Truespel, is almost the same as the New Spelling alphabet used for the i.t.a.
		ITA's distinguishing characteristic was to turn digraphs such as TH, CH and EE into ligatures.
		ITA merely postpones the difficult transition to TO to a time when the child is better prepared to deal with its lack of logic and consistency.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /vangogh/555/Spell/ita-eval.html (3121 words)

	I.T.A. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I.T.A. The Initial Teaching Alphabet was a spelling system devised by Sir James Pitman in England about 1960 to help children to learn to read and write.
		ITA was a consistent, phonetic system of spelling, each sound being consistently represented by a certain symbol.
		ITA showed that children can learn to read and write English very easily, quickly and accurately when the spelling system is logical and consistent, and based on the sounds of the words.
	www.e-speec.com /ita.htm (582 words)

	i.t.a. Press Release 3
		Using the initial teaching alphabet in a language experience approach allowed students to use their natural language and interests to create their own reading materials.
		The overall conclusion is that the initial teaching alphabet (i.t.a.
		Flynn, J. The use of the initial teaching alphabet for remediation of dyslexia.
	www.italiteracy.org /research.htm (3986 words)

	eye \| feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The new alphabet was not intended as a wholesale spelling reform, nor as a replacement for the existing alphabet; its role was purely to provide a logical system that would be simpler for children to learn.
		Two letters from the traditional alphabet, ‘q’ and ‘x’, were dropped, as their sound values can be represented by other letters; the 24 letters that were retained were assigned specific phonetic values and were supplemented by twenty new characters designed, by the Monotype Corporation, to bear a visual resemblance to existing lower-case sorts.
		Remarkably beautiful in print, the alphabet remains a testament to an idealistic period when English speakers attempted, in the context of primary education, not only to reform their eccentric spelling but to modify the very symbols with which the language is represented on the page.
	www.eyemagazine.com /feature.php?id=117&fid=524 (1323 words)

	Initial Teaching Alphabet Association Australia - Australian Science at Work Corporate entry
		The Initial Teaching Alphabet Association Australia was established in Australia in 1974 by founding member Arlie B. Hargreaves and under the patronage of Sir George and Lady Paton.
		The ITA alphabet is based on phonetic spelling of workds - the theory being that children and beginners can become proficient readers much more quickly by using this medium which doesn't have the complexities and contradictions of the English "Traditional Orthography" (TO) alphabet.
		Arlie B. Hargreaves was involved with the ITA in Australia from the beginning, first as ITA advisor for Pitman House Publishing Co., Carlton, which sponsored the introduction of ITA into Australia from 1963-1973; then, with the help of Sir George Paton, Hargreaves formed the ITA Association of which she served as Honorary Secretary/Treasurer.
	www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au /asaw/biogs/A000907b.htm (743 words)

	ITA
		The Initial Teaching Alphabet has 44 symbols instead of the conventional 26; each of the 44 symbols represents one and only one sound.
		With this consistent Initial Teaching Alphabet, a child's earliest experience with school demonstrates to him that his reason can be counted on in this basic leaning situation - that once he learns a fact, he can apply it successfully.
		Within the design of the letter and its use as a consistent symbol are built other special considerations which reduce the differences between the appearance of words in the Initial Teaching Alphabet and in the conventional alphabet.
	www.smecc.org /ita.htm (1130 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Educashunal lunacie or wizdom?
		And Edwin Robson, who was taught ITA in the 1960s, says many of his friends blame their poor spelling on being taught this system in their first year of school.
		ITA seemed to be a brilliant way of pushing the children on and they learned to read much earlier than usual.
		ITA is a classic case of missing the point.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1523708.stm (1280 words)

	i/t/a - The advantages and disadvantages of the initial teaching alphabet. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		i/t/a distinguishes the voiced and unvoiced th [as is thy thigh] and w [wail-whale].
		complete alphabet is twice as complex as the ordered character set that is usually referred to as the alphabet.
		The arguement sugjests that the students or the ITA was at fault.
	www.foolswisdom.com /~sbett/ita-eval.htm (3764 words)

	i.t.a. Press Release 1
		For example, "ate," "eight'" "wait," and "they." The 26 letters of our conventional alphabet are combined in numerous ways, making learning to read and spell very complex for young children, people with dyslexia, and those learning English as a second language.
		The initial teaching alphabet (i.t.a.) has been specifically designed to present the beginning reader and writer with a logical and reliable system.
		The initial teaching alphabet uses 24 of the conventional 26 letters and adds 20 more symbols to represent the additional speech sounds of English.
	www.italiteracy.org /Whatisita.htm (315 words)

	Pitman Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.)
		The Pitman Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) was invented by Sir James Pitman, grandson of the inventor of Pitman shorthand.
		It was first used in a number of British school in 1961 and soon spread to the USA and Australia.
		Some of the phonemes represented by digraphs in the traditional orthography are represented by ligatures in the i.t.a.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/ita.htm (208 words)

	Phonetic alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Relatedly, a writing system that deals with phonemes is likely to be called a phonetic alphabet, although the term phonemic alphabet might be used instead.
		Shavian alphabet, in honor of George Bernard Shaw.
		The term phonetic, though common, is a misnomer in this context, as the purpose of such alphabets is to identify spelling rather than pronunciation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phonetic_alphabet (250 words)

	MSJ-article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		ITA was not a methodology but simply a correspondence table where each symbol was associated with one and only one sound.
		With ITA [Pitman's Initian Teaching Alphabet], the student should be able to guess the correct spelling 100% of the time after one try.
		ITA was an alternative to guessing or inventing the spelling of familiar pronunciations or guessing the pronounciation of unfamiliar strings of letters.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/vangogh/555/Spell/MSJ-article.html (4681 words)

	MSJ-article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Semites added an alphabetic order because the same collection of shapes were used for their number system.
		Historians have attributed the rapid spread of the northern semitic alphabet to its simplicity and ease of teaching.
		However, the restoration of the last consistent alphabet used for English is probably more difficult today than it was 300 years ago when Noah Webster and Benjamin Franklin made their recommendations.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /vangogh/555/Spell/dyslexia-msj3.html (5934 words)

	Spanglish2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		n the late 1960's and early 1970's, the ITA experiments confirmed the source of the problem: Students using a consistent alphabetic orthography learned to read and write as fast as their Spanish counterparts and nearly three times as fast as students who were trying to master traditional English orthography.
		According to Pitman, ITA was a medium (essentially a phonemic alphabet with a new font) not a method.
		Initially no attempt was made to teach the children how to transition from ITA to TO.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/vangogh/555/Spell/spanglish2.htm (4089 words)

	ita-1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Using the i/t/a with an optimal teaching method, it may be possible to master the basic code four times as fast as when starting out with the irregular traditional code.
		Code literacy in the i/t/a means that the child has learned one of the 4 or so different ways available in the traditional writing system to represent a spoken sound.
		The complete alphabet has twice as many phonograms as the ordered 26 letter character set that we were taught in the 1st grade.
	www.foolswisdom.com /~sbett/ita1.htm (5232 words)

	Dyslexia - Is the spelling system dyslexic?
		The 10th century Saxon alphabet and the Old English writing system had few of the code overlaps and little of the polyvalence we see in today's English orthography.
		The alphabet was augmented by the addition of the wynn, thorn, eth, and the ash.
		The augmented Latin alphabet is [with a few exceptions such as y, h, j, w] the same one that is used in every country that adopted the Roman alphabet.
	www.unifon.org /dyslexia.html (6160 words)

	ITA - TheBestLinks.com - Nun, Ireland, Independent Television Authority, Initial Teaching Alphabet, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		ITA - TheBestLinks.com - Nun, Ireland, Independent Television Authority, Initial Teaching Alphabet,...
		ITA, Nun, Ireland, Independent Television Authority, Initial Teaching Alphabet...
		The Initial Teaching Alphabet is a script intended for teaching children to read
	www.thebestlinks.com /ITA.html (151 words)

	Travl Fraaziz
		The alphabet was used in British schools in the 1960s and 70s but its use has since declined.
		The Initial Teaching Alpahabet is abbreviated as ITA, i.t.a., and i/t/a.
		The Petersonian English Alphabet (PEA) was created by David Peterson as an overhaul of the English spelling system.
	www.travelphrases.info /languages/reform.htm (193 words)

	Akses and Phonemes, Frequently Asked Questions
		It IS a complete writing system that (like i.t.a.) is easy for children to master but (unlike i.t.a.) takes the place of spelling to give them access to written language throughout their lives.
		Spelling is based on an "alphabetic principle" - the sequence of letters in words according to written usage by authorities, established by a lexicographer, and published in a dictionary.
		According to the same dictionary, a (first letter in the alphabet) "stands for" 7 of the total of 43 phonemic "sounds." In some words, as many as 4 letters are needed to spell one sound.
	www.akses.org /amws10.htm (2503 words)

	The advantages and disadvantages of the initial teaching alphabet.
		The advantages and disadvantages of the initial teaching alphabet.
		It should be emphasised that the majority of the verbal evidence collected in this evaluation weighted the advantages of using i.t.a.
		This view was supported by headteachers, local advisers and other visitors to schools, who also noted particularly an improvement in the proficiency of less able and less experienced teachers when they use i.t.a.
	www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk /spell/itaaddis.html (1091 words)

	Teaching your kids to read
		When your decide that it is time to actually start teaching your child to read, you must start with a prereading or reading-readiness program.
		Being familiar with sounds of the spoken word is the foundation for teaching phonics, which is a method for teaching children to read.
		The teaching of phonics can present some problems because in the English language a speech sound can gave several different spellings.
	ksks.essortment.com /teachingkids_rcmj.htm (741 words)

	ss-1 saxon-spanglish alphabet and phonemic notation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One unique characteristic of the Spanglish alphabet is the representation of all vowels [white] and semivowels [gray].
		Tenth century clerics devised a Latin based alphabet for English that made it possible to spell words as they were pronounced and pronounce words as they were spelled.
		Part of the proposed solution is to start teaching a parallel notation which can serve as a dictionary pronunciation guide and an initial teaching alphabet.
	members.fortunecity.com /rapidrytr/Spell/ss-1.html (3558 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Writing System/Simplified Lang
		For several centuries, language scholars had felt the need for an international alphabet that would represent the same sounds regardless of language and regardless of how a sound might be spelled in a given language.
		The alphabet is often called "futhark" from the first 6 letters ("th" is one letter).
		As other alphabets grew in popularity, with a corresponding decline in the knowledge of runes, the latter were used as magic signs as well as for writing secret messages.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/simpwrth.htm (2188 words)

	Search Results for "alphabet" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		...The Roman alphabet adopted from the Greek by way of the Etruscan alphabet, consisting of 23 letters and forming the basis of numerous alphabets around the world,...
		...The alphabet in which Sanskrit and many modern Indian languages are written.
		IPA A phonetic alphabet and diacritic modifiers sponsored by the International Phonetic Association to provide a uniform and universally understood system for...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col61&query=alphabet (291 words)

	Bulletin topics.
		Initial Teaching Alphabet, Initial Teaching Medium, Augmented Roman Alphabet.
		- An Experimental Use of Pitman's 'World i.t.a.' in the Teaching of English.
		- An Evaluation of the Initial Teaching Alphabet.
	www.spellingsociety.org /bulletins/btopics.php?j=I (690 words)

	Teaching Alphabet - Learning RU
		… The Pitman Initial Teaching Alphabet (ita) was invented by Sir James Pitman, …; ita - the advantages and disadvantages of the Initial Teaching Alphabet …
		The Initial Teaching Alphabet is a 44 sound-hyphen symbol phonemic alphabet that simplifies the beginning stages of learning to read and write in English at …;
		Initial Teaching Alphabet alphabet of 44 characters designed by Sir James Pitman to help children learn to read English more effectively.
	learning.ru.com /teaching-alphabet.html (501 words)

	Links to Alternate Orthographies and New Writing Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Task analysis indicated that ITA was over 100 times [or 1000%] easier than the traditional orthography but when used with a mix of teaching methods it proved to be only 90% better over a three year period.
		The absence of confusing code overlaps make restored alphabet spelling a viable candidate for a new ITM (initial teaching medium) in the schools.
		Teachers interested in using RES as a new initial teaching medium in the classroom or for a research study may contact Dr. Steve Bett for details.
	members.fortunecity.com /rapidrytr/Spell/whowhere-index.htm (1569 words)

	ON THIS DAY \| 27 \| 1953: Spelling bill passes second reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		However, the idea was put on the back burner until James Pitman devised the Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA) - a phonetics-based system made up of 44 characters.
		ITA was tested in a handful of schools in England during the early 1960s with mixed success for the children involved.
		ITA is among numerous alternatives to standard English spelling - others include Spanglish and Cut Spelling.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/27/newsid_2801000/2801617.stm (507 words)

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