“Comprehension processes [for young readers] grow.... [when] they leave the surface layers of text to explore the wondrous terrain that lies beneath it. The reading expert Richard Vacca describes this shift as a development from "fluent decoders" to "strategic readers"--"readers who know how to activate prior knowledge before, during and after reading, to decide what's important in a text"....” ReadingGrowthSelf HelpReading BooksReadersCognitive Development Book:Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain Source: Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain