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The three R's refers to Reading, Writing, And Arithemetic. The word writing doesn't begin with an r but it does begin with an r sound, and the word "arithmetic," in the old saying, was called 'rithmetic, so it was said as "Reading, Writing, and 'Rithmetic," were the 3 R's.

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