Three-legged instructional model for teaching reading to struggling learners -- S.E.T. : strategic, explicit teaching -- Building a solid foundation : teaching pre-reading skills -- Breaking the code : teaching phonics skills -- Reading the big words : teaching structural analysis skills -- Teaching words by using visual cues -- Developing speed and accuracy : teaching fluency skills -- Teaching reading comprehension : the basic approach -- Teaching reading comprehension and language skills -- Teaching reading comprehension and cognitive processing -- Teaching reading comprehension with different text structures -- Assessment for planning and monitoring reading instruction.