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=== Reading Skills ===
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|Rules-based
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reading comprehension
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* subject-verb identification
* pronoun matching
* transition words
* qualifier words and clues
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| rowspan="3" |Textual
|reading comprehension
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* understanding the text and identifying evidence
* "getting rid of the noise"
* working from imperfect knowledge (working around what you don't understand)
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|summarization
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* identifying and isolating relevant evidence
* identifying main points and avoiding inference
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|context
|placing ideas within evidence
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|Inference
|logic
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* inference based on evidence
** not exceeding evidence or context
** logical inference
* "given this evidence, I can infer that..."
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