When we read we lose sight of the fact that our mind is constantly moving processing the words to gain understanding. As fluent readers, we don’t think of reading as a process of thinking unless we’re reading in an official learning capacity. Yet comprehension, on some level, happens no matter what we’re reading.

Whenever we read we are in the process of thinking. For some of us we can picture scenes as we read. Although this doesn’t happen each time we read due to the nature of the text it is important to know that this is our brains way of thinking and processing the information we read. Comprehension happens because of our minds continuously processing the information we read.