[1] The earliest school-based literacy education was started by Dale at Wimbledon High School from 1892 to 1909.
Ms Edith Hastings, to whom Dale dedicated her book On the Teaching of English Reading, was headmistress of Wimbledon High School for Girls from 1880 to 1908.
Dale published several books, starting in 1898 with On the Teaching of English Reading (green cover) with J M Dent & Co., London, England.
This book taught the alphabetic principle and phonemic awareness.
She taught the voiced and unvoiced consonants, vowels and silent letters by using different colors (black, blue, red and yellow, and she had her students step out the syllables.