This document discusses strategies used by proficient readers when reading informational texts. It identifies strategies such as activating prior knowledge, determining important ideas, asking questions, creating sensory connections, drawing inferences, retelling or synthesizing information, and using fix-up strategies when comprehension breaks down. The document also discusses ineffective reading strategies like ping-pong reading and mindless reading. Finally, it outlines an approach to integrating effective reading strategies with three phases: pre-reading to prepare to learn, during reading to process new learning, and after reading to consolidate and apply new learning.