Agent skill

Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector

by GarethManning in GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Select and sequence reading comprehension strategies matched to a specific text's challenges and demands.

Custom licenceAuto-check passed

Install Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill reading-comprehension-strategy-selector -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills reading-comprehension-strategy-selector --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/literacy-critical-thinking/reading-comprehension-strategy-selector .claude/skills/reading-comprehension-strategy-selector && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
reading-comprehension-strategy-selector
GitHub stars
840
Token cost
~5.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,775 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
160
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Select and sequence reading comprehension strategies matched to a specific text's challenges and demands.

  • Works in 4 steps: Activate prior knowledge: "Before we… → Set the reading challenge: "Today's text… → Introduce the questioning strategy: "As… → …
  • Students struggle with a text
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Does, Evidence Foundation, Input Schema and Prompt, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Select and sequence reading comprehension strategies matched to a specific text's challenges and demands. Use when students struggle with a text or need targeted reading support.

Its SKILL.md is about 5.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 165 evidence-grounded AI skills for teachers, school leaders and EdTech builders—pedagogy, learning science, curriculum, assessment and regeneration. Claude, Codex and Hermes.

When your agent uses it

  • Students struggle with a text
  • Need targeted reading support

Example prompts

  • “/reading-comprehension-strategy-selector”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Activate prior knowledge: "Before we read, what do you already know about the Black Death? When was it? Where?" Quick brainstorm — 2…
  2. Set the reading challenge: "Today's text explains WHY the plague spread so quickly across Europe. It gives several causes. Your job isn't…
  3. Introduce the questioning strategy: "As you read, I want you to keep asking one question: 'How does this connect to what I just read?'…
  4. Show the recording format: Two columns — left column: "Cause," right column: "How it connects to other causes."

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6bbbce4. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector loads about 5.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 55 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,775 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~55
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~5.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,775 words (~5,292 tokens).

“Identifies the most appropriate reading comprehension strategies for a specific text and reader challenge, and provides a complete implementation guide including a teacher modelling script. Rather than defaulting to "use all the strategies" (a common but ineffective approach), this skill…”

— opening of SKILL.md by GarethManning, Custom licence
name
reading-comprehension-strategy-selector
disable-model-invocation
false
user-invocable
true
effort
medium
skill_id
literacy-critical-thinking/reading-comprehension-strategy-selector
skill_name
Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector
domain
literacy-critical-thinking
version
1.0
evidence_strength
strong
evidence_sources
Duke & Pearson (2002) — Effective practices for developing reading comprehension, Pressley (2002) — Metacognition and self-regulated comprehension, National…
output_schema.type
object

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/literacy-critical-thinking/reading-comprehension-strategy-selector of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4

Compare with similar skills

Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector compared with similar skills
SkillStarsUsed inTokensAuto-checkLicenceRepo updated
Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector this skillGarethManning/education-agent-skills840—~5.3kAutomated safety check: PassCustom licence
Manim Video Productionbrowser-use/video-use29k6 repos~3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Logseq Review Workflow Evallogseq/logseq45k—~1kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0
Baoyu URL To Markdownsdyckjq-lab/llm-wiki-skill2.5k2 repos~3.2kAutomated safety check: PassNone
DeepTutor CLIHKUDS/DeepTutor41k—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0
Obsidian CLIAtmosphere/atmosphere3.8k13 repos~795Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0

Similar skills

  • Manim Video Production

    browser-use/video-use

    Produces math and technical explainer videos with Manim Community Edition: concept animations, equation derivations, algorithm walkthroughs and data stories.

    29k GitHub starsUsed in 6 repos~3k tokens
    Media & CreativeAuto-check passed
  • Compare two revisions of the Logseq logseq-review-workflow skill by running the same review prompt against isolated before and after skill snapshots, collecting both outputs, and producing a…

    45k GitHub stars~1k tokensUpdated today
    Knowledge ManagementAuto-check passed
  • Baoyu URL To Markdown

    sdyckjq-lab/llm-wiki-skill

    Fetch any URL and convert to markdown using Chrome CDP. An agent skill from sdyckjq-lab/llm-wiki-skill.

    2.5k GitHub starsUsed in 2 repos~3.2k tokens
    Knowledge ManagementAuto-check passed
  • DeepTutor CLI

    HKUDS/DeepTutor

    Teaches the agent to set up and run DeepTutor from the command line: chat and capabilities, knowledge bases, partners, memory, sessions, notebooks and the server or Web app.

    41k GitHub stars~2.8k tokensUpdated 2 days ago
    EducationAuto-check passed
  • Obsidian CLI

    Atmosphere/atmosphere

    Interact with Obsidian vaults using the Obsidian CLI to read, create, search, and manage notes, tasks, properties, and more.

    3.8k GitHub starsUsed in 13 repos~795 tokens
    Knowledge ManagementAuto-check passed
  • AI Engineering Placement Quiz

    rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch

    Runs a 10-question quiz across five areas to place a learner in the AI Engineering from Scratch curriculum, so they skip what they already know.

    66k GitHub stars~2k tokensUpdated today
    EducationAuto-check passed

More from GarethManning/education-agent-skills

All 160 skills in this repo
  • Academic Language Sentence Frame Generator

    GarethManning/education-agent-skills

    Generate tiered sentence frames for academic tasks that scaffold language production across proficiency levels.

    840 GitHub stars~5.1k tokensUpdated 1 mo ago
    Auto-check passed
  • Adaptive Hint Sequence Designer

    GarethManning/education-agent-skills

    Generate a cascading hint sequence for a problem type, revealing progressively without giving answers.

    840 GitHub stars~5.4k tokensUpdated 1 mo ago
    Auto-check passed
  • Agency Circles For Systems Action

    GarethManning/education-agent-skills

    Map control, influence, and concern after systems analysis. An agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

    840 GitHub stars~2.3k tokensUpdated 1 mo ago
    Auto-check passed
  • Agency Scaffold Generator

    GarethManning/education-agent-skills

    Generate scaffolds that gradually increase student choice, voice, and ownership within a learning task.

    840 GitHub stars~5.6k tokensUpdated 1 mo ago
    Auto-check passed
  • AI Expertise Interrogation Designer

    GarethManning/education-agent-skills

    Design a Funhouse Mirror activity where students use their own domain expertise to detect AI distortions, omissions, and overconfidence.

    840 GitHub stars~5.8k tokensUpdated 1 mo ago
    Auto-check passed
  • AI Feedback Design Principles

    GarethManning/education-agent-skills

    Audit and redesign AI-generated feedback for pedagogical quality, timing, and learning impact.

    840 GitHub stars~5.8k tokensUpdated 1 mo ago
    Auto-check passed

Questions about Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector

What does Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector do?

Select and sequence reading comprehension strategies matched to a specific text's challenges and demands. Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Select and sequence reading comprehension strategies matched to a specific text's challenges and demands.

When should I use Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector?

Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector fits situations like: students struggle with a text; need targeted reading support.

How do I install Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill reading-comprehension-strategy-selector -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/literacy-critical-thinking/reading-comprehension-strategy-selector in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/reading-comprehension-strategy-selector in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector in Codex?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill reading-comprehension-strategy-selector -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/literacy-critical-thinking/reading-comprehension-strategy-selector in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/reading-comprehension-strategy-selector in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill reading-comprehension-strategy-selector -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/reading-comprehension-strategy-selector, .gemini/skills/reading-comprehension-strategy-selector, .github/skills/reading-comprehension-strategy-selector and .opencode/skills/reading-comprehension-strategy-selector in your project.

What does Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector is instructions for the agent only.

Does Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector use?

Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector use?

About 5.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 21k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector: Manim Video Production (browser-use/video-use, 29k stars), Logseq Review Workflow Eval (logseq/logseq, 45k stars), Baoyu URL To Markdown (sdyckjq-lab/llm-wiki-skill, 2.5k stars) and DeepTutor CLI (HKUDS/DeepTutor, 41k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Reading Comprehension Strategy Selector?

GarethManning (a GitHub user) maintains it in GarethManning/education-agent-skills, which has 840 GitHub stars. The repository holds 160 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 28, 2026.

Source: GarethManning/education-agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.