1. Asking Wh questions and answering them in order to elicit the semantic and syntactic relationship between different parts of a complex and/or compound sentence
2. Raising students' consciousness about the role of punctuation marks in reading comprehension
3. Bringing the omitted parts back to their original place
4. Identifying the main sentence and the dependent sentence (s) in complex-compound sentences and understanding their semantic and syntactic relationship
5. Identifying the reference of the pronouns
6. Simplifying long sentences by omitting pre- and post-modifiers of nouns and adjective clauses whether restrictive or nonrestrictive
7. Learning how to use the grammatical information available in monolingual dictionaries
8. Learning "phrase breaking" and recognizing phrases in long sentences to promote reading comprehension and increase its speed
9. Identifying the head noun of different kinds of phrases Zahra Akbari / Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 98 (2014) 122 – 126 125
10. Paraphrasing the seemingly difficult sentences by using already known, simpler grammatical patterns
11. Bringing back the reversed sentences to their original places
12. Understanding the role of implicit/explicit conjunctions to promote reading comprehension and to increase its speed
13. Recycling and reviewing the key grammatical points while teaching reading comprehension so that learners get adequate exposure to the real use of grammatical points
14. Asking learners to search for the grammatical points (explained in the grammar section) in their reading texts to discover the connection between the reading and grammar
15. Designing English course books in a way that the given grammatical point explained in the grammar section being the key, frequently used grammatical point in its related reading passage in each unit/lesson