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| Covers from ME Gagg children's readers 'translated' into I.T.A. More about ITA on Wikipedia > |
Most adults (moms and dads and not a few teachers) didn't like it, so it quickly fell into disuse, but I think it actually worked for me.
The first book I ever reread many times was a first grade ITA reader. It featured a stegosaurus with purple polka dots. Another retold the classic story of a Chinese boy who swallows the ocean and saves his brothers' lives.
However, although I'm a prolific writer and voracious reader, I'm a terrible speller, and ITA may have had something do with that.
But I don't need to know how to spell to write, just as I don't need to know how to read music to play it. Human expression always has mechanical aspects that are easier to interpret (the order of letters on a page, notes of a register, liturgy), and that's where most of us stop.
[2014-11-30]
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