Proceedings of the International scientific and practical conference ―Science and Global Development‖ (February 20-22, 2026) / Publisher website: www.naukainfo.com. – Barcelona, Spain, 2026. - 229 p.

211 general. Your reading skills make up your ability to read texts, understand their meaning and retain the information. Strong reading skills are useful for communication via emails, notes or letters. Also, in many jobs, you receive written instructions or information. Critical reading, or critical analysis, is the process of engaging in what you read by asking yourself functional questions about the purpose and meaning of the text. Evaluating texts and finding answers to these questions allows you to gain clarity and understanding of what you're reading. The ability to critically read is a skill that most people learn and develop throughout their lives by examining pieces of text to determine the key ideas they represent. When you read critically, your main purpose is to focus on these three elements: what the author says; what the text describes;how you would interpret the text. Strategies for successfully answering the questions are identical to those for the longer passages. The first thing you will want to do, before diving into the practice, is to make sure you are thoroughly familiar with these strategies. Then feel free to adapt them to suit your needs and preferences. One word of caution, though: Be sure you actually try each strategy several times before deciding whether or not it suits you! 1. Get involved with the passage. Critical reading is an active endeavor, not a passive one. React to the material, form questions as you read, and make your own marks on the paper. Write in the margins, underline important words and sentences— talk back! 2. Tr y looking at the questions (but not the answers) before you read the passage. Make sure you understand what each question is asking. What are the key words in the questions? Are there phrases you can look for in the passage? If so, underline them or jot them in the margin so that you can look for them in the passage. Then, when you find them, you can either answer the question right away or mark the area to return to later. 3. After reading the passage, return to the questions and try to answer each one in your own words before you look at your answer choices. The reason for this is that the answers will contain distracter choices. These are choices that are logically plausible