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Try tackling it from the end backwards?

It depends where you find yourself coming unstuck. A lot of people when they start reading seem to have trouble with things like noun-modifying clauses, or you might need to study some more grammar (particularly conjunctions, e.g. bits that join parts of a sentence together) to make it easier to parse sentences.

If you give an example of the sort of thing that you struggle with then we can work through it: mostly it's just practice.

An example from a random news article:
ウシのような形や色から、島根県・隠岐諸島で「ベコ」と呼ばれる軟体動物・アメフラシが、地元の海岸で産卵し始めた

This actually boils down to アメフラシが、地元の海岸で産卵し始めた。 with a long modifying clause describing what a アメフラシ is.

ok, so they assume their readers don't know the kanji for cow 牛 but know how to read 隠岐諸島? makes no fucking sense