Are Teachers Teaching Children to Read?

The idea that teachers are there to teach children to read is not part of the thinking. Reading is sort of a term that now on the education side means just the mechanics and you do as little of that kind of stuff as possible so that you can move on to literacy, which is the- What's literacy if it's something different? Literacy, well you would think it was the ability to read and write. History is the appreciation of text, the appreciation of story structure,. How reading and text functions in your particular part of the culture.