Have you ever wondered why some students seem to only half understand the texts you ask them to read? You find they sort of know what a text says but aren't really sure why? Or they seem to guess at details (often incorrectly) based on a vague understanding of what the text is saying? Maybe the problem is that many students have difficulty understanding what they read at the sentence level which in turn makes understanding the larger text even harder.Asking students to read larger texts and then