Essential Components of Reading: Comprehension Articles

• The quiet crisis of upper-level illiteracy by Kerry Hempenstall. The Education Age, June 6, 2005,
• Decoding and word automaticity are important in improving reading comprehension by Michael Pressley. Excerpted from “Comprehension Instruction: What Makes Sense Now, What Might Make Sense Soon”, Reading Online, 5(2).
• Enhancing Main Idea Comprehension for Students with Learning Problems: The Role of a Summarization Strategy and Self-Monitoring Instruction by Asha K. Jitendra, Mary Kay Hoppes, Yan Ping Xin. Journal of Special Education, Fall, 2000