BOOK OF READING COMPREHENSION - GRADE 6 If we understand what we read, we can share in what other people personally want to tell us accomplish our practical tasks more effectively learn facts about our world and how it works open our feelings and imagination to the human truths in stories and poems. To understand, we need to read actively precisely sensitively imaginatively With ELP READING COMPREHENSION youngsters learn the strategies that lead to understanding, power, and delight.