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Season Two, Episode Six: Christopher Such (Reading)

Thinking Deeply about Primary Education

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What Is Reading and Writing in Tailes in English?

If there was just one message that i could get across to teachers, it would be explaining what reading and writing entailed in english. Around forty thousand yearsg the first evidence of symbolic representation in humans was created - cave paintings. And beginning en began symbolic representation as a tool of humanity. As society got more complicated, more complex, this symbolic representation was used to do more complicated stuff like keep track trades,. Keep track of what resources there were, et cetera. So effectively, writing systems developed that instead of representing objects, wich this is called pictographs started representing words. These are called logographs. Now this logographic representation, in theory, allows people to represent all human

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