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r than ignoring or distorting what doesn39。t fit their interpretation. They realize that everyone is capable of making mistakes and being wrong, including authors of textbooks. ? They also realize that, since everyone has a point of view, everyone sometimes leaves out some relevant information. No two authors would write the same book or write from exactly the same perspective. Therefore, critical readers recognize that reading a book is reading one limited perspective on a subject and that more can be learned by considering other perspectives. Basic reading skills ? recognize vocabulary. ? pick out key words, such as those identifying topics and main ideas. ? figure out the meaning of the words, including unfamiliar vocabulary, from the (written) context. ? recognize basic syntactic patterns. ? reconstruct and infer situations, goals and participants. ? use both knowledge of the world and lexical and grammatical cohesive devices to make the foregoing inferences, predict outes, and infer links and connections among the parts of the text. ? get the main point or the most important information. ? distinguish the main idea from supporting details. ? adjust reading strategies to different reading purposes, such as skimming for main ideas or studying indepth. Critical Reading Skills (Garrigus, 2022) ? Basic critical reading skills ? Distinguish topical anization from anization by ideas ? Finding the main idea of paragraphs, multi