A comprehensive review of the literature concerning reading comprehension skills of EMR children was made. The search yielded six items which provided only embryonic answers to three guiding questions concerning which comprehension skills should be taught to MR children, the age or level at which these skills should be taught, and the hierarchy of these skills. The paper discusses what the literature says in answer to these three questions and poses others.
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