Tools, abilities, and strategies for reading that allow readers to expand upon and develop their knowledge base through literacy.

A learning strategy based on five steps—predict, organize, rehearse, practice, and evaluate—that helps secondary- and college-level students plan, monitor, and assess their reading.

Also referred to as work-study skills, these are the sets of abilities that are assessed on many standardized achievement tests.

A strategy designed to help students organize information in a text using a structured outline based on six basic comprehension questions: who, what, when, where, why, and how.

The relationships of words or sentences having equal associations between concepts.

Words holding their meanings within a text or a particular passage.

A framework for study which is useful when information is acquired from a video, TV program, or web-based video clip.

A reading strategy meant to give readers self-assessment techniques by asking specific questions during each of the various phases of reading (such as scanning, preparation for reading, recitation and review, and reading review).

A teaching strategy in which students write down keywords associated with a selection they have read, connect those words to specific examples, and then connect them to descriptive words thereby recreating important aspects of the selection. This process assists teachers in guiding their students to reflect on their reading.

Reading that happens at a fast pace and often used when trying to derive general ideas as to what a passage is about.