When I was learning to read, my dad taught me something that helped me throughout my life. He would have me read a page or paragraph and then he would take away the book and say “now tell me what you read”. I would start to repeat something and he would say “no, don’t tell me the words you memorized, tell me what it said”.
That tiny little lesson stayed with me the rest of my life. It taught me to love reading, how to analyze, how to understand. They don’t teach like that anymore.
In our school in the ‘50s and ‘60s, we had “SQ3R”, which was much like your dad’s method. I loved it.