{"id":24633,"date":"2011-02-19T23:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T23:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_reading_test_for_six-year-olds_to_include_non-words\/"},"modified":"2011-02-19T23:00:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T23:00:35","slug":"bbc_reading_test_for_six-year-olds_to_include_non-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24633","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Reading test for six-year-olds to include non-words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of made-up words such as &#8220;koob&#8221; or &#8220;zort&#8221; are to be included in the government&#8217;s planned new reading test for six-year-olds in England.<\/p>\n<p>The idea has drawn criticism from literary experts who say the approach will confuse those beginning to read.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Literacy Association said the plan was &#8220;bonkers&#8221; as the purpose of reading was to understand meaning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-12509477\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of made-up words such as &#8220;koob&#8221; or &#8220;zort&#8221; are to be included in the government&#8217;s planned new reading test for six-year-olds in England. The idea has drawn criticism from literary experts who say the approach will confuse those<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24633\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,101,111,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-children","category-education","category-england-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}