Reading is great because it allows you to learn and reinforce vocabulary. You learn the vocabulary in its context, together with another relevant vocabulary, and you also get the most frequently used and useful words.
This encourages them to go slower, which gives them more time to process what they read and in turn improves reading comprehension.
Make sure your school-aged reader gets lots of practice reading books that aren't too hard.
To gain meaning from text and encourage reading comprehension, your child needs to read quickly and smoothly.
Explaining story structure and how plots typically move from introduction to complication, and then on to climax.
After a student has gained the vocabulary to read through a text, the next challenge can be understanding the complex details and developments needed to discern what is not explicitly stated in the reading.
Identifying the main idea and summarizing requires that students determine what is important and then put it in their own words.
In order to make inferences about something that is not explicitly stated in the text, students must learn to draw on prior knowledge and recognize clues in the text itself.