When I started school, we were taught to read using this method. I went to school in Sefton though, so I was wondering if this 'language' was taught anywhere in Sheffield

ita hyperlink (http://www.itafoundation.org/alphabet.htm)

Crikey Strix my schooldays are soooo long ago to even think back to infants and learning to read is a blur...I remember struggling with Island and Antique and putting reading cards through a machine that read it back like 'Stephen Hawking'!!

:P

My mum taught me to read pretty well before I went to school. I was always ahead of the other children. I remember the childrens story books. That's how I learned to read.

What sort of posh school did you go to to have something that technical Shiesh?

Or am I really old :(

Originally posted by Strix
What sort of posh school did you go to to have something that technical Shiesh?

Or am I really old :(

:hihi: Dya know I was an original Stainsby Girl (Chris Rea song) but that was secondary level...my infants school would have been Acklam Whin circa 1975-1978...I remember making jubilee scrapbooks and thinking how ugly Princess Ann was for a 'Princess'....strange how things stick in your mind!!

;)

Originally posted by Strix
When I started school, we were taught to read using this method. I went to school in Sefton though, so I was wondering if this 'language' was taught anywhere in Sheffield

ita hyperlink (http://www.itafoundation.org/alphabet.htm)
I remember ita, although it came into use when I was about 8 or 9 years old. I remember my younger sister was taught using ita, when we were living in Cornwall, but it was stopped within a year or so because it was teaching bad handwriting habits, and the kids weren't learning to read because no books were printed in ita.

All my younger siblings thereafter learned to read in the traditional way.

There was an article in The Daily Telegraph yesterday (Friday 3rd June, 2005), which claimed that teachers will go back to teaching how to spell and read the traditional way, as opposed to ideograms and phonetics.
It went on to say that experts had learnt that children came out of school with poor spelling abilities, as they'd learnt the "modern" way. It added that the new (or rather, old system), will be reintroduced at the beginning of the next academic year.

I'm afraid that I can't link to it - you have to be registered on the DT site, and I'm not sending my copy from Kent to Sheffield.

:)

Originally posted by amhudson119
experts had learnt that children came out of school with poor spelling abilities, as they'd learnt the "modern" way.

:hihi: Coz I'm renowned for my bad spelling ;)

Well, I voted 'NO'
and...... well done Strix for getting smileys in at the side of your poll options.
Are you the first to do this, or have I been drinking :D hic!

I've seen it done before DT, so I have copied it before too.
They need to be typed in (I think)

Originally posted by Strix
:hihi: Coz I'm renowned for my bad spelling ;)

:hihi: Yes I can remember the hovering, hoovering, hovvering thread (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28791&perpage=15&highlight=hoovering%20hovering&pagenumber=2) :clap:

Originally posted by Shiesh
:hihi: Yes I can remember the hovering, hoovering, hovvering thread (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28791&perpage=15&highlight=hoovering%20hovering&pagenumber=2) :clap:
*ducks for cover*

no but what I'll never forget is:

if you get d's an b's mixed up if you write bed a little man should be able to lay in his bed and used b as a pillow and have his legs on d.
If you write it like this : deb he can't lay down!

Originally posted by Lotti
no but what I'll never forget is:

if you get d's an b's mixed up if you write bed a little man should be able to lay in his bed and used b as a pillow and have his legs on d.
If you write it like this : deb he can't lay down!

I recall the verse...' I before E except after C....doesn't work for Weird though does it ....and loadsa other words...ie., neighbour, neither etc

how confusing....:suspect:

yeah but as a little kid a lot of the people in my class used the 'bed' rule and tho it only helps in that word, all over people's writing there'd be little beds! It only works for people very young though, you should really know which way round your b's and d's go!

isnt that just the alphabet minus q and x

I learned to read normally/properly but a couple of my little cousins had the ita inflicted on them. They asked me to read to them from one of their books and half the letters were wrong. Double O was represented by something like a curly W so "boots" looked like "bwts". Me and my brother took the p--s out of them, poor kids. At eight I remembered that when I learned to read I was looking at all the street signs and the labels on cereal packets etc, I thought it was stupid to have to learn a funny alphabet and then learn the proper one later before you could read what everyone else could. Fads!!