The document outlines 7 strategies for improving reading skills: 1) Scanning a text and asking questions, 2) Using color cues to guess word meanings, 3) Creating concept maps to understand texts, 4) Determining what you want to know from a text, 5) Identifying reference words to better understand texts, 6) Getting the main points of what is read, 7) Making predictions and inferences using a KWL chart.