READING COMPREHENSION - GRADE 1 This back-to-basics method provides students with an approach they can use to learn all of the skills needed in Reading Comprehension. To help students learn to comprehend what what they read, this book offers an interesting fact or fiction based story on every other page. Each narrative has been written so that a student at a first-grade level can read it successfully. The carefully thought-out questions help a student learn to think, respond, create, imagine, and even do research to learn more about a subject.