1. finding Definitions (sometime a passage will give definitions or explanations of words that are related to the topic)
2. Recognizing Facts (it's important to know the differnce fact and opinion)
3. Predicting (guess what will happen next in the text. It will increase your understanding of the reading.)
4. Noticing Patterns (examing how an article is setup helps you read more quickly and find important information easily.)
5. Easily Confused Words and Choosing the Right Words (the words effect and affect or words like this are often confused. Some words are similar in meaning such as expect, hope and look forward to)
6. Making Inferences (a reader has to infer or make guesses about events, information, or a writer's opinion using information in the reading)
7. Skimming for General Ideas (we read quickly to get a general idea of the meaning of the text.)
8. Vocabulary : Adjective Endings (Adjectives can be formed in many different ways.)
9. Recognizing Sequence of Events (to show time relationships writers use word like originally, later and today)
10. Understanding the Main Ideas (Understanding the main ideas of each paragraph in a reading can you to follow the argument the author is making, and to understand the main idea of the whole passage)
11. Scanning for Proper Nouns (it is one way to quickly recognize what a reading passage, places, and things)
12. Prefixes in-, im-, and in- (these prefixes mean not, so adding them to a word makes it negative)