confidently approach reading tasksactivate their background knowledge on thesubject before readingconnect background knowledge to newlearningknow their purpose for readingmake predictions and choose appropriatestrategiesset relevant, attainable goalsfocus their complete attention on readingae able to read independentlypossess and extensive vocabularyuse appropriate decoding or word attack skillsread fluentlyanticipate and predict meaningraise related questionscreate visual and sensory images from textstrive to understand new termsreflect on what they have readuse their knowledgeseek additional information from outside sourcesfeel success is a result of effortcan independently gain information