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Did anyone else here learn to read by the I.T.A. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet) method??
I.T.A. stands for Inital Teaching Alphabet. They were using this in California school districts in the early 70's and I was one of their guinea pigs.
My spelling skills have been fucked up ever since. :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr:
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Did anyone else here learn to read by the I.T.A. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet) method??
I.T.A. stands for Inital Teaching Alphabet. They were using this in California school districts in the early 70's and I was one of their guinea pigs.
My spelling skills have been fucked up ever since. :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr:
Case in point. :)
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Did anyone else here learn to read by the I.T.A. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet) method??
I.T.A. stands for Inital Teaching Alphabet. They were using this in California school districts in the early 70's and I was one of their guinea pigs.
My spelling skills have been fucked up ever since. :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr:
Case in point. :)
Initial. :emb:
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That's fucking retarded. I learned using the phonics method, and my grandmother and two aunts were teachers. Phonics plus having young kids read cool stuff like Dr Seuss works very well. Only Suzanne Ramirez could beat me in spelling bees with any regularity.
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OK I didn't read through that whole thing, but it looks very confusing :zombiefuck:
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:zombiefuck:. See Dick run. See Jane run. May have been boring as hell, but I think I'd have been a basketcase after ITA.
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That's fucking retarded. I learned using the phonics method, and my grandmother and two aunts were teachers. Phonics plus having young kids read cool stuff like Dr Seuss works very well. Only Suzanne Ramirez could beat me in spelling bees with any regularity.
I was already reading a bit when I started kindergarten. I don't really remember how I learned,
except that my father used to read to us kids a lot. :orly:
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OK I didn't read through that whole thing, but it looks very confusing :zombiefuck:
Yes, basicaly, you learn to read and spell the English language wrong, then you have to re-learn to do it right.
Throughout my childhood however, I was always spelling things the ITA way instead of the right way.
I STILL probably use ITA spellings without even being aware of it.
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Guy must have been sky high, 24/7.
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I just Googled I.T.A. Bloody hell! I couldn't even read the Wikipedia entry because it made my head spin.
WTF compels some people to make things so much harder than they have to be? :zombiefuck:
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I feel so sorry for you being the guinea pig for such a horrible approach to learning to read.
I learned phonics and also some sight reading words and I remember we used Dick and Jane books in first grade.
Huked on Fonix Wurkd Fur Mi.
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That's seriously fucked up.
Wonder how many other people have trouble as a result of this? I know I probably would have. :zombiefuck:
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That's seriously fucked up.
Wonder how many other people have trouble as a result of this? I know I probably would have. :zombiefuck:
All three of us siblings in my family are naturally good spellers, but if we'd been taught the I.T.A. method, we might not have been.
I wonder if there's been any research into the long-term effects of I.T.A. upon spelling ability! :nerd!:
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That's seriously fucked up.
Wonder how many other people have trouble as a result of this? I know I probably would have. :zombiefuck:
All three of us siblings in my family are naturally good spellers, but if we'd been taught the I.T.A. method, we might not have been.
I wonder if there's been any research into the long-term effects of I.T.A. upon spelling ability! :nerd!:
Yeah, look how scrap turned out. :lol:
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I know, he cant' even spell his first name right. It's Craps, not Scrap. Poor fellow. ::)
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That's seriously fucked up.
Wonder how many other people have trouble as a result of this? I know I probably would have. :zombiefuck:
All three of us siblings in my family are naturally good spellers, but if we'd been taught the I.T.A. method, we might not have been.
I wonder if there's been any research into the long-term effects of I.T.A. upon spelling ability! :nerd!:
Yeah, look how scrap turned out. :lol:
Awww poor Scrap! The thing is, many people are poor spellers no matter how they learned to read; I just wonder if I.T.A. students
have more trouble than phonics-method students, or if there is a different pattern to their mistakes. :chin:
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I wonder if Pittman was a fucking Marxist? :scratchhead:
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My spelling was fucked up enough already that would have really done a number on me.
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I wonder if Pittman was a fucking Marxist? :scratchhead:
He was definitely a sadist. :thumbdn:
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Never heard of it. Not a great speller though.
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I take it that I'm the only one here who went through this.
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I take it that I'm the only one here who went through this.
Maybe more survivors will surface later. I'd never even heard of this barbaric system! :zombiefuck:
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I take it that I'm the only one here who went through this.
Hopefully it got shit canned before it was used too much. It's like training to not actually hit during free style. :thumbdn:
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Your lucky you didn't move far away after learning it to finish elementary school like I did. While i didn't learn that my elementary school was big on all the "new" methods of teaching and I was in special classes for dyslexia and fine motor skill problems when I moved to Florida the schools were set up like the 1950's it was a big shock. Dyslexia was looked at as being stupid
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Any advantage of the I.T.A. in making it easier for children to learn to read English was often offset by some children not being able to effectively transfer their I.T.A.-reading skills to reading standard English orthography, and/or being generally confused by having to deal with two alphabets in their early years of reading
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I had enough trouble with the alphabet as it was, with this method, you would have to learn it twice!
I went to school in the early 80s so we didn't use this method. We had Sam and Pam and Nat the cat and Digger the dog. :D