Understanding and teaching reading comprehension: a handbook

1. What it's all about

2. Skills and processes

3. Assessing comprehension and the characteristics of poor comprehenders

4. Inferences: going beyond explicit details to make sense of text

5. Knowing and learning the meanings of words

6. Sentences and their connections

7. Finding and using text structure when reading

8. Does it make sense? Monitoring for meaning

9. Pulling it all together.