Marking the text is an active reading strategy where students identify what is important in the source by having a clear purpose. This strategy has three steps

1. Numbering the paragraphs.

2. Underlining key terms, names, and places .

3. Circling claims and ideas from the author.

Dialectical Journals allow students to record their thought in preparation for a discussion with a partner, small group, or entire class. The following is a list of activities that students may do to interact with lecture notes, text, or video. With each activity, students should divide their papers in half and place notes on the right side. They should then be instructed to respond to these notes on the left side in one or more ways.

Used during or after the lesson. It is one approach to summarizing a text/notes. Summaries should be clear and precise with 20 words or less.

• After a learning experience (reading selection, notes, demonstration, experiment, etc.), students work independently to identify the 10 Most Important Words or phrases used during the lesson.

• Share individual lists of words with a partner. Discuss the reason for each word chosen and work together to generate one list of the 10 Most Important Words.

• THIEVES is a pre-reading strategy that sets the purpose for reading using an easily remembered acronym. Students learn how to “steal” information from the Title, Headings, Introduction, Every first sentence, Visuals/Vocabulary, End-of- chapter questions, and Summary before reading the entire text selection.