Reading comprehension is important for many reasons. If a person can read, yet is not really able to interpret what is read into usable information, they've not gained much. By definition, reading comprehension involved understanding what is read, and without understanding there isn't much point to one reading a bunch of words on a page. Reading comprehension is a teachable skill, in most
. cases, but it must be practiced and taught through repetition and building on skills that have already been learned. One can't very well learn reading comprehension before one learns to read, for example. For material to use in teaching this skill, visit www.abcteach.com/directory/reading_comprehension.
