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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 11, 1992                   TAG: 9202110379
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
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FOR THE RECORD

CLARIFICATION

A sentence was inadvertently dropped from one paragraph of the letter by Karen McLeod on Feb. 8. The paragraph should have read:

Whole-language is meaning-centered. It assumes that people read and write to express meaning. Phonics is one of many tools to help the reader decode words. Yet, when it is used in isolation, comprehension is often lost. If comprehension is lost, what is the purpose of reading?

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