How did you learn to read? That is a question that I never really pondered until recently. I had gone to my parents house to help clean out their house and found a bin of my things from grade school. Inside, I found photos, newspaper clippings of events and a book titled The Secret Place and Other Poems. These all brought a smile to my face as I remembered a sweet time in life and had a good laugh at the book that helped me to learn English.
Why a good laugh? The Secret Place and Other Poems looks like it was written in Old English! It was written in the Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA) system that used a variant of the Latin language. The program was piloted at the grade school I attended. It is a wild system but somehow did not impact my language acquisition during those formative years.
Watch the video below to learn more about this reading and writing teaching method. It was developed originally in Britain in the 1960s. Some schools in the United States implemented it but it never caught on and soon faded out altogether, in both Britain and the United States.
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