[NLA] NIFL Board

[AWilder106@aol.com]

For years there have been two strands to literacy instruction, the Great 
Debate, the Literacy Wars, etc.  One is associated with skills based 
instruction, the other, meaning based instruction.  The first says that 
reading = acquisition of skills, the second that reading = the abstraction of 
meaning from text.

Of course the dividing line between the two is not absolute, these are just 
two positions that I am stating fairly baldly.   

There is the assumption on the list that Bush supports the first meaning of 
reading instruction.   

Andrea