Re: Education law....school detention

On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:48:39 +0000, Paul Robson
<autismuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's an utterly mindless task. Asking a child to think of A-Z occupations
would have some sort of point.

The purpose of the exercise was to give the child practise in looking
up words in a dictionary. Looking for a specific word in an
alphabetical list of words is a very practical skill that most of us
need to use from time to time. So I do not agree that it is at all
pointless.

The exercise is akin to saying, "Think of a word, and then look up the
word in a dictionary". Specifying that the words are occupations
simply ensures that (a) the exercise is not done the wrong way about
(e.g. opening the dictionary at random and copying down any word) and
(b) that the words chosen are not trivial and simple words.

Obviously the exercise will be performed by first thinking of an
occupation starting with a certain letter, and then looking it up.

Tell me, if you wanted to give a child non-interactive practice in
finding words in a dictionary, what exercise would *you* set for the
child?

--
Cynic

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