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Colorful comment, kingmi!
I can't speak to what color of the spctrum gets read first, but from on the white background of a piece of paper red stands out much more readily than yellow.
Gee, maybe we should make the celebratory term "red-letter day" into a decription of disaster and despair . . .
posted by
WriterofLight
on April 6, 2005 at 6:16 PM
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Well, I'm sure others have more profound comments to make on this, but i do know that, from brain research we have learned: red is the last color to be read of the entire rainbow. Yellow is the first. Also, new writing techniques, writers' workshops and others have concluded that more power comes from positive conditioners than negative. So that a student is more likely to write again, when something interesting is written on a paper, even with spelling errors, which can be addressed at another time. The old "pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps" philosophy of education is evermore popular these days, but effective for only about 34% of global student populations. Why? Because we are all made differently.
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kingmi
on April 5, 2005 at 7:23 PM
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