Reading comprehension is the ability to read text and understand its meaning accurately. It involves several skills such as:
1. **Word Recognition**: The ability to read words correctly and quickly.
2. **Connecting Ideas**: The ability to connect ideas and concepts within the text.
3. **Inference**: The ability to read between the lines and draw conclusions or insights that are not explicitly stated.
4. **Summarization**: The ability to summarize the text and highlight the main ideas.
5. **Critical Analysis**: The ability to analyze and evaluate the text critically.
Reading comprehension is crucial in education as it helps students to better understand and analyze academic materials, apply what they have learned in everyday life, and improve their overall cognitive skills. It can be enhanced through repeated reading, expanding vocabulary, discussions about texts, and practicing inference and summarization skills.