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How Parents Can Improve Their Child's Online Reading Performance with UNDRSTND
Students today read more online than ever, yet their comprehension continues to drop. Here is how UNDRSTND helps kids and college students stay focused, learn faster, and perform better.
If you have a student at home, you already know how hard it is for them to focus when reading online. Between pop-ups, tabs, and distractions, it often feels impossible to keep their attention long enough for something to sink in.
Even motivated students struggle to remember what they just read because their focus is constantly being pulled in different directions.
Research shows this is not about discipline. It is about how the online environment works against comprehension. Most students are reading in browsers built for entertainment, not for learning. That means every link and search becomes an interruption.
Research
According to the National Endowment for the Arts, average reading comprehension among U.S. teens has dropped 15% in the past decade, largely due to digital distraction.
UNDRSTND was built to help students reclaim that focus. It turns the web into a place for deeper learning rather than endless distraction.
When students read physical books, the experience is linear. They can underline, reread, and stay in the same mental space. Online, they jump from page to page. Every time they switch tabs to look up a definition or concept, they lose their train of thought. By the time they return, the connection between ideas has weakened.
Cognitive scientists call this "context switching fatigue."
It is the mental cost of moving between tasks faster than the brain can reset.
Over time, that fatigue lowers comprehension and retention. Even bright students start to feel like they are working harder while learning less.
UNDRSTND keeps students in flow. When they highlight a term, phrase, or sentence, the explanation appears instantly beside what they are reading.
No new tabs, no waiting, and no loss of focus.
This simple interaction improves comprehension by letting students process information in context. They stay engaged with the material and can continue reading without breaking rhythm.
Key Insight
When learning feels fluid, students read longer, understand more, and retain what they learn.
The goal is not to make reading easier. It is to make understanding more natural.
Many parents worry about technology replacing effort. UNDRSTND is the opposite. It encourages active learning by prompting students to seek clarity and build understanding on their own. Every highlight is an intentional moment of curiosity, not a shortcut.
"When comprehension feels rewarding, curiosity takes care of motivation. You do not need to force focus once it starts to feel good."
This is why students who use UNDRSTND begin to read with more confidence.
They spend less time stuck and more time connecting ideas, which leads to stronger academic performance.
Encourage your child to use UNDRSTND while reading class articles, assignments, or research papers. Ask them what they learned from what they highlighted. This turns passive reading into active learning.
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Ask them to highlight a term in their next reading assignment and explain what they learned in their own words.
You will see their focus and recall improve almost immediately.
Add to Chrome — Free TrialThe earlier students develop strong online reading habits, the easier school becomes. UNDRSTND helps them stay present with what they read, turning attention into true understanding.
Help your child learn the way the web was meant to be read.
Simple, focused, and deeply understood.