The [[educational psychologist]], [[G. Michael Pressley]], concluded there are two important aids to fluent comprehension: explicit instruction in major content areas by a child's teacher, and the child's own desire to read.
At the end of this stage, before the reader becomes an expert reader, many processes are starting to become automatic., This increasing automaticity frees up cognitive resources so thatallowing the reader canto reflectfocus on meaning. With the decoding process almost automatic by this point, the brain learns to integrate more [[metaphorical]], inferential, [[analogical]], background and [[experiential knowledge]]. This stage in learning to read will often last until early adulthood.<ref name="Wolf143">{{cite book |author1=Wolf, Maryanne |author2=Stoodley, Catherine J. |title=Proust and the squid: the story and science of the reading brain |publisher=Harper |___location=New York |year=2007 |pages=139-143[https://archive.org/details/proustsquidstory00wolf/pages/139-143] |isbn=978-0-06-018639-5 |oclc=471015779 |url=https://archive.org/details/proustsquidstory00wolf}}</ref>
