Ideas for Progress in Reading Your score indicates that you will likely be ready for first-year college courses in reading. To further improve your skills, you may benefit from activities that encourage you to do the following: Main Ideas and Author's Approach locate and analyze ideas in a complex text and write a reasoned synopsis of the text determine the author�s or narrator's position toward a specific topic, issue, or idea by noting key facts, claims, and details from the text Supporting Details identify facts embedded in complex informational texts Sequential, Comparative, and Cause-Effect Relationships determine the chronological sequence of events and the spatial relationships in complex texts (e.g., Dickens, Garc�a Marquez, Morrison, Tolstoy) analyze subtle relationships between and among people, objects, events, and ideas in complex texts or films, forming accurate inferences identify implications and possible consequences of actions in complex texts Meanings of Words employ strategies for defining a difficult concept, such as identifying its characteristics or providing examples of what it is and is not like Generalizations and Conclusions examine information from multiple sources and perspectives (including the author's or narrator's) in order to make reasonable generalizations about people, objects, ideas, and situations evaluate the impact of literary devices (e.g., figurative language) on the meaning of a literary narrative