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Critical reading is critical thinking applied to the process of reading.
The critical reader realizes that reading means entering into the writer's point of view. A critical reader actively looks for assumptions, key concepts and ideas, reasons and justifications, supporting examples, parallel experiences, implications and consequences, and other structural and semantic features of the text in order to interpret and assess it fairly and accurately. The critical reader engages and challenges the writer in the reading process. Through this process, the critical reader is able to separate weak and ambiguous ideas from well though out and well supported ideas. Challenge the author's ideas and point of view.