Recently, I watched a YouTube video about a basic makeup kit. The premise was "if you could only have a few makeup products, what would you keep?" I'm no makeup expert, but I do know what reading strategies I would keep. These are my ride-or-die reading strategies. Perhaps these are not the trendiest or most glamorous or buzziest strategies, but these are tried-and-true, truest blue reading strategies. I have taught pretty much everything 9-12 ELA, and these work. every. single. time.