The document discusses several reading techniques: 1) Skimming involves quickly reading a text to obtain an overview of its general ideas and content. Keywords, repeated words, and typographical aids are used to identify main topics. 2) Scanning is used to locate specific information like names, dates, or details. The reader quickly scans the text to find these pieces of information. 3) Predicting involves using titles, headings, pictures and personal experience to anticipate what may happen in a text before reading it fully. Readers can then refine their predictions based on the actual text.