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Comprehension: Acquiring strategies to understand, remember and communicate what is read.
Comprehension is defined as "intentional thinking during which meaning is constructed through interactions between text and reader" (Harris & Hodges, 1995)... (continue reading from New Jersey's Reading First Program Grant Application).

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