What do you do to you understand and read better? (take the most from a text)

Well when I was little I didn’t know how to read so one day I saw a card with the word “across” on it and I wanted to read it so I took my time and sounded it out then the next day at school we were assigned books to read and they gave us cards with words to practice so I practiced a lot

Enlightenment philosophers employed scientific method to distill scientific truths through experimentation and observation. They used other tactics as well.