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  2. Initial Teaching Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The I.T.A. originally had 43 symbols, which was expanded to 44, then 45. Each symbol predominantly represented a single English sound (including affricates and diphthongs), but there were complications due to the desire to avoid making the I.T.A. needlessly different from standard English spelling (which would make the transition from the I.T.A. to standard spelling more difficult), and in ...

  3. Cognitive clarity theory of learning to read - Wikipedia

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    Page from the Alphabet Children's Book (1884), teaching children the names of the letters through poems. Downing used his model to explain the anomaly of why children who began to read successfully tended to know the names of letters of the alphabet, [30] yet experimental teaching of letter-names led to no discernible improvement in reading. [31]

  4. John Downing (educational psychologist) - Wikipedia

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    Downing's study of the initial teaching alphabet provided insight into how a language's linguistic characteristics and orthography could influence how children learn to read, as such he explored and compared learning to read in different languages and effectively launched a brand new field of study "comparative reading" named after his original ...

  5. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

  6. Emergent literacies - Wikipedia

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    Improving alphabet learning in the classroom. It is best to teach letters using a multicomponent approach. [16] This is where letter names, sounds, recognition, and writing are all taught together. When teaching letters, incorporating content and text where the letters are found will be beneficial. [16] For example, if the letter /c/ has been ...

  7. Vera Southgate - Wikipedia

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    Vera Southgate (10 March 1916 – 23 March 1995) was a British educationalist who dedicated herself to improving how children were taught to read English from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, a period when many different methods were practised, including the initial teaching alphabet, phonics, and whole language.

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