"College instructors consider reading to be a basic skill, one that all students should have acquired before entering college. However, students often neither complete assigned readings nor know how to effectively read assigned material—one of the most common challenges reported by college instructors (Gottschalk & Hjortshoj, 2004). AVID’s approach to 'critical reading' provides educators with practical, research-based strategies designed to help students read more effectively. Skills, such as 'reading with purpose,' are scaffolded with more complex activities to ensure that students connect reading material to prior knowledge, understand the structure of texts, and use text processing strategies during and after reading to improve comprehension."

-AVID Handbook, 2021-2022