This document discusses various reading strategies for critical reading including evaluating texts for their essence, understanding cognates and how words connect, skimming for main ideas, scanning to understand the overall main idea, intensive reading in detail for specific aims, understanding referents in context, identifying connectors between ideas, and recognizing compound words.

1. READING STRATEGIES CRITICAL READIN Evaluate the text by a reading comprehension, finding the essence of the text. COGNATES two words that have a common origin SKIMMING find the main idea by analyzing in detail. SCANING Understand the main idea. INTENSIVE READING Reading in detail with specific learning aims and tasks. REFERENTS word that has meaning according to the text CONNECTORS Word that helps connect ideas of a paragraph of text COMPOUND WORDS A word composed of two words