[NIFL-LD:3709] Re: reading IS comprehension

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Lucille,

There are at least two trains of thought about the definition of reading.  
The first has reading as a technical skill--decoding.  The second conflates 
reading and comprehension and calls that reading.  I am saying that even 
reading with comprehension may not be a big enough definition, that the 
meaning of "discourse" may also enter into the larger definition of reading.

There are different schools of thought on these definitions, there is not 
agreement on a single definition of "reading."  

The NALS very definitely uses the third definition of reading, reading as 
functional use.

Andrea



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