Reading Comprehension

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Content · Sub-category: storytelling

Strategies for constructing meaning from text, monitoring understanding, and repairing comprehension breakdowns. Covers before-during-after reading framework, seven evidence-based comprehension strategies (activating prior knowledge, questioning, visualizing, inferring, determining importance, summarizing, monitoring/fix-up), text structure recognition (narrative and expository), schema theory, close reading protocols, and the gradual release of responsibility instructional model. Use when teaching comprehension strategies, analyzing reader difficulties, planning text-based instruction, or building meaning from complex texts.

What this skill does

Reading Comprehension is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the storytelling sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/reading-comprehension/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when teaching comprehension strategies, analyzing reader difficulties, planning text-based instruction, or building meaning from complex texts.

Who uses this skill

The Reading Comprehension skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/reading-comprehension
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/reading-comprehension/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/reading-comprehension/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/reading-comprehension/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/reading-comprehension/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\reading-comprehension\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.