Science of Reading
The Simple View of Reading (above) explains the need to focus on BOTH Decoding and Language Comprehension for a child to gain Reading Comprehension.
Incorporating all of the skills from both Language Comprehension and Word Recognition/Decoding, as seen in Scarborough's Rope (below), increases a child's reading fluency and comprehension to develop a skilled and fluent reader.
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
Maya Angelou