What are real writing/reading strategies?

During elementary, middle, high school, and college, I have been told how to read and how to write. Every teacher has said the same thing, read it over the first time to get a basic understanding, reread for details, and try reading the passages a third time to write your own thoughts and arguments, and to reword the author's writing so you can understand it better and completely. Truthfully, Ann Raimes did not say anything that moved me or enlightened me as a reader or a student. She is just repeating the same thing I have heard for years on end. The only thing I liked about her strategies is that she wrote questions in the margins and wrote a few definitions. That works perfectly with text books that you own, but when you're renting from a store/library or when the text is on the computer, it it's as effective. I think Ms. Raimes needs to update her writing strategies and concepts. For example, I think authors need to write how to help students stay on track and not zone out while reading online or on the computer. While reading this passage, I have visited MSNBC.com, Nytimes.com, and my gmail account countless times. I don't mean to do this, but her writing techniques are things I have heard countless times and I don't need to hear her redundant tips. If I were to have to write a paper about writing techniques, I would want to try to focus on the idea of “how do I catch the readers' attention and how do I keep it, yet keep my main idea/focus?” This is something I want to and need to read about, not relearning about first drafts, types of articles (persuasive, informative, etc). But regardless, thank you Ann Raimes for enlightening me, again, on how to read and write.