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Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong by whoknowsidont on Sunday August 03, 2025 @02:31AM (#44774535)
>You're asking me to tell about a homework from 1988, in dutch, when I was 8 years old

Well asking certainly, but I'm not demanding? I don't know, seems like a very weird application. I certainly don't know ANY dutch, which doesn't help.

Is it just a "rhythm" mapping exercise based on the syllables? I probably read the first post a little bit to literally.

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Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong by hyperman1 on Sunday August 03, 2025 @02:38AM (#44774565)
Yeah that 'asking' sounded wrong. Sorry. Read it as 'dont quote me on this, long time ago, memory untrustworthy'.

As an adult, I can say today: It is indeed a rhythm exercise, with some syllables being longer than others. I just wish someone had told me this at the time.

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