2. Provide books at the right level

In fact, students who can heighten these skills with your help might be better prepared for college.
If you’re a Social Studies teacher, you can teach your learners important historical facts. As an English teacher, you can teach them about the world’s great authors and the books they wrote. Even in Science you can explore the world’s most important scientific theories with them and why they’re relevant.
Ultimately, though, to teach your learners to analyze historical events, English literature, and scientific and math concepts, you must teach them how to read better.
If successful, they will be far better prepared for courses in content areas they are unfamiliar with like those they will take in college. For example, a student with excellent reading comprehension skills but no background in Economics might be better prepared for a college Economics course than a student with average reading comprehension skills who has aced high school Economics courses.
“To prepare students for college and careers, reading comprehension needs to be a part of all subject areas,” argues the Edudemic article “Why Reading Comprehension in the Content Areas is So Important.” “Students cannot master complex scientific concepts, comprehend historical treaties, or follow complex logic problems without it.”
How to Begin Improving Reading Comprehension
How do you start improving reading comprehension with your math, science, history, or English learners? The first thing is that you should not do what so many teachers do, which is tell your students to read about a topic they are unfamiliar with.
“Read Chapter 1 over the weekend” or “read pages 50 through 60 tonight” is not an effective way to begin teaching about a topic. What did you do when your teachers gave you that kind of instruction?
Did you just read every word in the assignment?
Try to memorize what you thought were key facts?
Did you look at the textbook’s practice tests and try to answer the questions related to the assignment?
Chances are you didn't, and yet this is exactly (and unrealistically) what we expect of our own learners.