I study how readers actively manage reading’s complexity, such as ways self-regulatory executive functions (EFs) undergird reading processes in typical and striving readers and those who speak varied languages and dialects. Ongoing work examines mechanisms of EFs’ support and coordination of multiple reading processes behaviorally, and in the brain’s reading network using EEG scans; as well as ways affects (e.g., reading anxiety) and motivations can facilitate or obstruct reading processes.