What is the latest research on reading comprehension instruction? Explore the three most powerful approaches to teaching close reading in ways that develop deep comprehension. These approaches include the coordinated use of multiple strategies at once, text structure analysis, and meta-cognitive 'fix-ups'. Learn how to support students' executive functioning and enable them to self-regulate (with self-statements, self-monitoring, and goal setting) so they can effectively guide and motivate themselves through the process of close reading. Equally important, explore realistic, time-efficient, and manageable ways that we (and students) can regularly monitor impact and clearly see growth in comprehension. Doing so allows us to continuously personalize instruction, based on each students' rate of growth as well as their unique strengths and struggles. Learn new promising research on how writing to learn (short writes in response to texts) can also build the kinds of critical thinking skills that are essential to deep reading comprehension.