o    The ability to identify and comprehend the main and subordinate ideas in a written work and to summarize the ideas in one’s own words.

o   The ability to recognize different purposes and methods of writing to identify a writer’s meaning inferentially as well as literally.

o    The ability to separate one’s personal opinions and assumptions from a writer’s.

o   The ability to vary one’s reading speed and method (survey, skim, review, question, and master) according to types of material and one’s purpose for reading.

o   The ability to use the features of books and other reference materials, such as table of contents, preface, introduction, titles and subtitles, index, glossary, appendix, bibliography.

o   The ability to define unfamiliar words by decoding, using contextual clues, or by using a dictionary.