The ITA alphabet?

[packman]

(I)nitial (T)eaching (A)lphabet.

Ran across this when reading an article about letters once considered in our now standard alphabet. Seems like it was taught in the 50's and relied heavily on phonics and passed out of style when emphasis was placed on memorization.

Were any of you old farts taught this in school?

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[hunter]

1. Early sixties, I LOATHED PHONICS.

I entered kindergarten knowing how to read, but not quite knowing how to talk.

While everyone else was learning to read, I was usually visiting the speech therapists.

I did three years of that.

My reading style is entirely visual. My writing style is a combination of both.

Anyways, the ITA phonetic alphabet was largely superseded by this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

Then, of course, developers of computer voice synthesis and speech recognition software have exposed serious deficiencies in phonics models and notations.

[surrealAmerican]

2. I was taught this in first grade ...

... in 1969. At the time, they claimed it allowed children to read and write six months earlier than the traditional approach.

We children liked it mainly because the ITA books were new and interesting compared to the Dick and Jane type of "primers" they had us reading from after we made the transition to the regular alphabet.

Most of my class (including me) had a lot of trouble with spelling for years after this.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Probably another case of ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer%27s_paradox#Hawthorne_effect (aka the Westinghouse Effect)

[Art_from_Ark]

4. That looks like the international pronunciation guide

Almost the same, but not exactly the same. It's used in Japan and elsewhere to show pronunciations of English words (and I guess, words in other languages). I never learned it in school.

[HeiressofBickworth]

5. Fortunately, I was never subjected to "new" theories of teaching.

I have always been a reader and I wrote legal documents for a living (paralegal). For a while, during high school, I had trouble with spelling because I was taking shorthand and it uses phonetics. Really messes one up for spelling.