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Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum?

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Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 15:28:07 -0000, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:

<snip> 

>>I highly doubt English school children speak much of anything other
>>than English.
> 
> The vocabulary of school children enlarges as they progress through
> school; or, it should.

Vocabulary and foreign languages are two different things.

> Mark's link was about "a class of 11-year-olds."
> 
> The language of an 11-year-old probably contains "fewer colour words"
> than a tenth-grader's.
> 
> But it seems 11-year-olds are expected to encounter the word "indigo":

An 11-year-old should be in about 6th grade and have learned all the
colors by about 3rd grade.

http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/index.asp

Click on "Visual and Performing Arts, Adopted January 2001" for the
curriculum for prekindergarden through grade 12 and go to the section
on visual arts.

-- 
Jim Pennino

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