ITA - Initial Teaching Alphabet

[GlenB]

In the 1960s/70s my sons learned to read using the ITA. Is the system used anywhere today?

[bimbo123456]

God I hope not! My sister had her education ruined by this so called system. She still can't spell.

[factor-fiction]

It looked something like this:

"Pawl seyz I liek icecreem"

Except some letters were joined together

[Info Bank]

Not the best lets say.


http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/S pell/ita-eval.html

[saxy_jag]

I learnt to read using ITA, and I guess I was one of its success stories. Either that or (maybe more likely) I was just a natural reader from the word go. By the time I was eight, they couldn't test my reading any further because my reading age went off the end of the chart and that only went up to eighteen years.

I seem to recall making the transition from ITA to 'proper' reading very easily, even reading from the two systems in tandem at one point.

[GlenB]

Thanks to you all.
As a grandparent I have seen my children learn to read successfully through ITA and my grandchildren by normal methods. My own feelings are that ITA made reading more interestiing at an earlier stage and the gradual change to normal was hardly noticeable.