Good readers are like... animals! A part of the English teacher work is to teach students how to read in a foreign language. It seems to be easy until you try it and you realised that it is not. It is important for teachers to have different reading strategies, according to the age and level of his/her students, in order to help them to deal with different kind of texts during the reading process. Let's see an strategy that was made for eight-year-old learners who were reading their first texts in English and they had to read a whole book by the end of their course. The strategy was presented in the following way: "First, you are like EAGLES and you can see everything with your super eyes so you use them to see what kind of text is. Then, you are like TORTOISES that move very slowly so you do the same with the text and read it so slow to understand what it is about. Finally, you are like PARROTS who repeat what you remember from the text. " The use of anim