An objective that high school English teachers should strive to achieve is to teach their students to become critical readers: readers who can infer, analyze, predict, synthesize, and use any other higher-order thinking with different kinds and mediums of texts. Such critical reading skills are not limited to the scrutiny of literature, but are also essential in questioning different beliefs, laws, and theories. People in fields associated with health, science, government, and business implement critical reading skills to better previously accepted views and enhance technology. Certainly, one must first develop their critical reading skills before using them in