The document outlines various reading strategies for academic reading including scanning, skimming, intensive reading, and extensive reading. It also discusses critical reading strategies such as summarizing, annotating, contextualizing, paraphrasing, and outlining. Seven strategies of highly skilled readers are described: activating prior knowledge, summarizing, monitoring comprehension, visualizing, searching and selecting information, questioning, and inferring. Finally, six strategies to improve reading comprehension are provided: making connections, asking questions, visualizing, determining importance, making inferences, and synthesizing information. The overall goal is to use various reading strategies to aid comprehension.