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Reading comprehension

Actually understanding and making sense of what was read.

Comprehension is the whole point of reading: understanding, remembering, and reasoning about a text. It depends on decoding, vocabulary, and background knowledge all working together, and it is practiced with questions about main idea, inference, and detail.

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More reading terms: Phonics · Phonemic awareness · Sight words · Decoding

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