Reading is a passive activity, with writing as the active counterpart.

The importance of background information for comprehension makes the strategies which teachers present for the purpose of reading-to-learn even more significant.

Authentic reading materials provide the best models of language.

It is recognized that "good readers" constantly make predictions about what they are reading while they are reading, and that these predictions are based on semantic, syntactic, and punctuation cues.

An approach based too exclusively on phonics will focus the student on decoding as reading, and will not encourage reading for meaning.