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The Four Rs (other)
The four Rs may refer to : * some variants of The three Rs ** ''Reading, (W)Riting, (A)Rithmetic (or Reckoning), and Religion'', in education ** Responsibility, Respect, Resourcefulness, Responsiveness (in the Individual Education school system) ** Reduce, reuse, recycle and repair, in sustainability * rescue, rehabilitation, restoration, and reintegration. * remove, raise, reduce and reward, A YouTube campaign that approach to responsibility for its content. {{DEFAULTSORT:four Rs, The ...
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The Three Rs
The three Rs (as in the letter ''R'') are three basic skills taught in schools: reading, writing and arithmetic (usually said as "reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic"). The phrase appears to have been coined at the beginning of the 19th century. The term has also been used to name other triples (see Other uses). Origin and meaning The skills themselves are alluded to in St. Augustine's '' Confessions'': 'learning to read, and write, and do arithmetic'. The phrase is sometimes attributed to a speech given by Sir William Curtis circa 1807: this is disputed. An extended modern version of the three Rs consists of the "functional skills of literacy, numeracy and ICT". The educationalist Louis P. Bénézet preferred "to read", "to reason", "to recite", adding, "by reciting I did not mean giving back, verbatim, the words of the teacher or of the textbook. I meant speaking the English language."L. P. Benezet, "The Teaching of Arithmetic I, II, III: The Story of an Experiment," Journ ...
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