Good readers learn to automatically read letter combinations at the ends of words differently than the same letter combinations that form a word. Good readers learn how to pronounce the -sque letter combination as sk as in Basque, masquerade, mosque, grotesque, and bisque. For more of the specific phonic patterns that are not taught, click here . Good readers learn how to scan. Good readers can use a dictionary and correctly pronounce any word by using the dictionary diacritics.
Good readers can read dialects in print.
For example, the following are definitions from Dictionary for Yankees and other uneducated people by Bil Dwyer. Good readers know the conventions cartoonists use to indicate thinking, motion, speed, dreaming, as well as talking. Good readers catch satire and puns. Good readers enjoy reading. Good readers know how to find things in catalogs and can use telephone directories and anything with an index.