Talk:Free Direct Instruction Curriculum and Training/Reading 1

Teaching to read can be done more efficiently by teaching with phonetic written symbols. In other words, you have to give prompts to help the reader discriminate between a long "a" sound and a short "a" sound, "ate" and "apple", respectively.

Initial Teaching Alphabet ITA
Initial Teaching Alphabet really changes characters of the alphabet to assist in learning to read. These changes are somehow phased out.

International Phonetic Alphabet IPA
- cards and order

Unifon
 

Dictionary phonetics
It appears Cambridge has really changed letters to assist with pronunciation.

Other weird links I stumbled across
 Eric Orthography review