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Were your language skills fucked up by I.T.A. ??
« on: January 04, 2011, 12:30:29 PM »
Did anyone else here learn to read by the I.T.A. 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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Re: Were your language skills fucked up by I.T.A. ??
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2011, 12:31:37 PM »
Quote from: Scrap Kinison on January 04, 2011, 12:30:29 PM
Did anyone else here learn to read by the I.T.A. 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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Re: Were your language skills fucked up by I.T.A. ??
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2011, 12:38:37 PM »
Quote from: Semicolon on January 04, 2011, 12:31:37 PM
Quote from: Scrap Kinison on January 04, 2011, 12:30:29 PM
Did anyone else here learn to read by the I.T.A. 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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Re: Were your language skills fucked up by I.T.A. ??
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2011, 01:09:39 PM »
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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Re: Were your language skills fucked up by I.T.A. ??
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2011, 01:11:57 PM »
OK I didn't read through that whole thing, but it looks very confusing  :zombiefuck:
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Re: Were your language skills fucked up by I.T.A. ??
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2011, 01:16:24 PM »
 :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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Re: Were your language skills fucked up by I.T.A. ??
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2011, 01:30:40 PM »
Quote from: PPK on January 04, 2011, 01:09:39 PM
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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Re: Were your language skills fucked up by I.T.A. ??
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2011, 01:41:44 PM »
Quote from: Heinrich on January 04, 2011, 01:11:57 PM
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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Re: Were your language skills fucked up by I.T.A. ??
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2011, 01:47:26 PM »
Guy must have been sky high, 24/7.
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Re: Were your language skills fucked up by I.T.A. ??
« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2011, 01:49:55 PM »
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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Re: Were your language skills fucked up by I.T.A. ??
« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2011, 02:13:32 PM »
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.

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Re: Were your language skills fucked up by I.T.A. ??
« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2011, 02:25:01 PM »
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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Re: Were your language skills fucked up by I.T.A. ??
« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2011, 02:29:17 PM »
Quote from: Icequeen on January 04, 2011, 02:25:01 PM
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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Re: Were your language skills fucked up by I.T.A. ??
« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2011, 02:46:06 PM »
Quote from: couldbecousin on January 04, 2011, 02:29:17 PM
Quote from: Icequeen on January 04, 2011, 02:25:01 PM
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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Re: Were your language skills fucked up by I.T.A. ??
« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2011, 02:51:32 PM »
I know, he cant' even spell his first name right.  It's Craps, not Scrap.  Poor fellow.   ::)
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