This one-to-one, on-going class is designed to help learners become better readers, where they not only read fluently but also have a good understanding of what they read. I use various age appropriate passages to teach research-based strategies such as identifying the main idea, identifying supporting details, using text evidence, context clues, text features, sequencing, summarizing and predicting.  Using the student's background knowledge, we try to make sense of what they read and I also...