This document discusses teaching reading strategies. It defines teaching reading as a complex process that requires teachers to develop extensive knowledge and draw on various strategies to help struggling students. Some key reasons for teaching reading are to help students learn language, read for information, and gain cultural awareness. The document outlines several reading strategies teachers can use, including previewing, predicting, skimming, scanning, guessing from context, and paraphrasing. It also notes some common problems with teaching reading such as students disliking reading and not knowing useful strategies.