What is the relationship between foundational skills and deep comprehension?
The deep reading processes that underly comprehension are diverse and essential in forming an increasingly elaborated reading circuit; foundational skills and comprehension skills must be integrated and connected.
There is a "changing dynamic between the early emphases on the expanded foundational skills and fluency and the gradually increasing emphases on more sophisticated comprehension processes . . . leaving room for the other to develop with the increasing demands of text content (Wolf, 2025)."