Comprehension

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Comprehension
Comprehension is the reason for reading. If readers can read the words but do not understand what they are reading, they are not really reading. Good readers are both purposeful (they have a reason to read) and active (they think to make sense of what they read).

Source: the National Institute for Literacy

For detailed information on the five components of effective reading instruction download Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read—a free publication of the National Institute for Literacy available here.