Critical Reading strategies

I have received a copy of AVID's critical reading strategies for expository texts from our middle school administration that sat in this AVID strand last summer.  I am a huge proponent of AVID methodologies.  They are researched based and AVID retains data on implementation success.

There are twelve strategies for critical reading:
1. Planning
2. Pre-reading
3. Learning and retaining academic vocabulary
4. Rereading
5. Marking the text
6. Pausing to connect ideas
7. Writing in the margins
8. Charting the text
9. Responding to a writing task
10. Summarizing
11. Sentence starters
12. Investigating writers's choice

I can easily see 1-8 go together to build deep reading strategies. I wonder, though, if 9-12 are application?

Just to reinforce that this is a learning stretch for me, I did not know that these strategies were among a category of reading strategies called rhetorical principles.

I will follow reading comprehension while implementing strategies 1-9, possibly using a piece of literature that they have already been exposed to and responded to in their AP English class.  I can utilize these texts to see if their reading comprehension increased as a result of these strategies.  I can also use a current literature selection in their AP class (one that they have not been exposed to before) and see if the strategies improved the ability to respond to questions asked of the text.

I also have access to several AP english prompts (provided by college board for practice purposes) to measure effectiveness.  In addition, the final exam for these students from Honors English III (the class that pre-empts AP English) can be utilized to see if comprehension increased as a result of strategy application.