tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9462344.post5623806381178899780..comments2023-06-28T17:05:30.899+01:00Comments on The Literacy Blog: i.t.a: a great idea but a dismal failureJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315146014179526480noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9462344.post-83052077732709058572016-09-30T21:19:07.187+01:002016-09-30T21:19:07.187+01:00I was taught ITA and got on well with it. The prob...I was taught ITA and got on well with it. The problem came when I later came to read normal English I really lost my confidence. Sounding out words like stomach and hearing the whole class laugh at my ignorance <br /><br />To this day I struggle with spelling even quite simple words. I wonder how I might have done if I had not gone through this ridiculous system. <br /><br />I still feel self-conscious about my inability to spell. <br /><br />I wonder if anyone ever sued the educational services for this? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17593749644010225411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9462344.post-84004287779343235662015-07-19T20:06:18.720+01:002015-07-19T20:06:18.720+01:00I was taught by ita and got on really well with it...I was taught by ita and got on really well with it. I'm amazed how people find it so hard to read. I'm now a teaching assistant and find the way phonics is taught now much harder. I don't really remember a transition between alphabets. I still recall the reading books we had including Janet and John books. I still have some of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9462344.post-6493110798474270302015-05-15T15:57:51.981+01:002015-05-15T15:57:51.981+01:00Rite 2 th last par, I'd say. The ankor is th ...Rite 2 th last par, I'd say. The ankor is th Alpha Code, & th akshon is in th CORRES btw the ltrs & th snds tht comprise th wds, not in the ltrs or snds per se.<br /><br />The thing is, English "spellings" are symbols for "readings" not symbols for "sounds." Children enter school speaking prose, but but few know how to read speech, and that communication is what reading instruction is all about. The English-speaking world has yet to devise instruction to reliably teach all kids how to do this. The UK is on the forefront of accomplishing this task, and more than 600 schools in England are doing it. Curiously, we don't know what distinguishes the instruction in these schools from that of schools that aren't, but "some day" that information will come to light.3RsPlus@usinter.nethttp://ssrn.com/author=1199505noreply@blogger.com