Anyone remember learning to read with ITA ?

I didn't but younger my sister did.
I remember her bringing her first IT A reading book home from school, my mum nearly flipped!

I was put in charge of her home reading (8 yrs older) and using chalk and a blackboard I taught her to read/write

My father was very hot on spellings he would constantly ask us how to spell words and always had a dictionary to hand.

Not sure how good at reading/ spelling my sister would have been without family input .
As it is she is good at both .

I learned to read with the Janet and John books…

I remember a colleague talking about this!

It was developed by the grandson of Pitman, of shorthand fame. He probably looked at those squiggles and thought “Well if people went for that, they’ll go for my ITA brainwave, no problem!”

More info here:
theliteracyblog.com/2015/05/14/i-t-a-a-great-idea-but-a-dismal-failure/

Janet and John for me too (and for Terry Wogan too of course )

I actually taught ITA in one of my first teaching jobs. It was a crazy system and it did affect my writing. Not so much spelling but the letter "z" ITA has another symbol which is a "Z" but written the other way round. For ages after I had taught it I would have to pause when I was writing to decide if I was writing a proper "z". Goodness knows what it did to the children's writing and spelling.

Janet and John for me.

I had to teach it, at the end of the seventies, and although it was logical it failed because children had to unlearn a process they had just mastered.
It did affect their spelling for years to come.

Janet and John for me.

I’m in a minority by the looks of it, I learned with Dick and Dora.

DD was taught to read with ITA. In spite of all her qualifications her spelling has never been brilliant and she still rings me (at the age of 48!) to check spellings if she's writing anything important. When her brother started reading 3 years later the school had given up ITA and gone back to conventional books. He's never had a problem with spelling. As someone once said to me "If you want children to learn to read English why start them off reading Bulgarian?"

Janet and John did me well. Sorry for bad grammar. I have had a newspaper column.

Thanks for the link EVHead. This is the first I've heard of ITA. Interesting thread.

I can't remember.

Not the ITA method as I'm too old but I have no idea how I learnt to read - I just did.

I do remember the DGC learning with the Oxford books featuring the oddly named Biff, Chip and Kipper (whose idea was that? )

I remember ITA being mentioned when we were at Uni. We were told that it had been dropped because it made it even more difficult for those who struggled with reading when they had to change to traditional spelling.

Casdon It was Dick and Dora for me too. I remember they had a cat called Fluff and also a dog - was the dog called 'Spot' ? or is that a false memory?

False memory I’m afraid, Granny23! Dick & Dora’s dog was Nip! ?

Janet and John for me.

Janet and John for me too

Casdon

I’m in a minority by the looks of it, I learned with Dick and Dora.

With Fluff the cat, and Nip the dog?

Casdon

I’m in a minority by the looks of it, I learned with Dick and Dora.

Dick and Dora for me also. Always felt they were a bit superior to J&J.

And my children learned with Billy Blue Hat, or some other Red and Yellow Hats or similar.

The younger of my brothers learned with ITA, and he's never read for pleasure in the fifty years since.

I learned to read in Scotland but have no recollection how, it just happened.

I also learned to read with Dick and Dora, Nip and Fluff.
I taught ITA briefly in the 70’s, didn’t have a clue what I was doing, let alone the children.

My children's infant school used it. I remember one teacher was Miz Humfreez. ?
One of my children is a language teacher and the other is a head of communications in a major company, so I don't think it did them any harm.