2. Provide books at the right level

Many of these tips can be summarized in one word—practice. Yes, students can succeed at improving reading comprehension skills by practicing how to ask and answer questions while they’re reading, taking notes, setting goals, writing summaries of what they have read and more.
Be honest with them about the fact that improving reading comprehension skills is a lot of hard work. Nevertheless, it’s worth it if they want to possess a useful skill for school and for life beyond it.
Teaching a child to sound out and decode letters is the first step in reading education. But just because a child can read words doesn’t mean they understand them.
“Reading comprehension is the ability to process texts, understand its meaning and integrate the text with what the reader already knows,” says Carly Shuler, co-founder and co-CEO of Hoot Reading, an online reading program. “It’s a critical component of reading to learn – which is different from learning to read – and it’s an advanced literacy skill, especially for emerging learners.”
Increasing comprehension is a fundamental skill in the reading process, particularly in grades K-4. Experts say that by third grade, teachers notice some children who are proficient at decoding words, stories and books, but don’t always understand what they are reading.
Yet, because these children are often reading words, they are assumed to be proficient and can sometimes go unnoticed. Standardized tests are often how reading comprehension deficiency is noticed.
By the time a student reaches fourth grade, school curriculums introduce more complicated subjects and concepts, Shuler says.
“This is where reading comprehension is critical,” she says. If problems are not diagnosed, the reading comprehension deficiency may not be discovered until middle school.

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“Middle school subjects introduce an entire new vocabulary to students and being a proficient reader is the necessary first step toward success,” says Caryn Solomon, a former special education teacher in Virginia and Washington, D.C., and a private academic tutor. “If a student lacks decoding skills, they will struggle with the introduction of new terms and concepts that are relevant and necessary for success in this new curriculum.”
Of course, education experts say there are many strategies that can be employed at school and at home to improve reading comprehension.