- Traditionally, reading involved a passive reader, but views later shifted to see the reader as more active.
- The reader must extract meaning from the text. Reading has long been a key skill in foreign language teaching.
- There are three stages of reading: pre-reading to build background knowledge and make predictions; while-reading to comprehend the text through strategies like skimming and scanning; and post-reading to reflect on and apply what was read through summarization and evaluation.