The goal of teaching children to read is not for them to learn a set of discrete decoding skills, it is to have the reader obtain meaning from the words on the printed page, to understand the message which the writer tried to convey when he wrote down the words. The goal is comprehension of the printed word. While children are taught multiple singular strategies to help them comprehend what they are reading, many children often falter in applying comprehension strategies when they read, seeing the strategies as discrete skills that are applied when the teacher directs them to use them, not understanding their applicability. This article will describe a method by which children can be shown how to utilize multiple comprehension strategies when reading a story.