Identify stated and implied main ideas and supporting details in various readings, such as essays, newspaper and magazine articles, textbooks, short novels or nonfiction works. Identify the differences between fact and opinion, make appropriate inferences and draw reasonable conclusions. Identify the thesis and understand the organizational pattern in longer works. Use context clues, word analysis, and the dictionary to increase reading vocabulary. Use the appropriate atudy skills for college course work, including summarizing, outlining, and taking notes from texts.