7 Further examples active reading strategies

There are many other examples of active reading strategies. Three more are listed below:

• Label the text by adding headings or labels to paragraphs to identify the main ideas or purposes of sections.
• Summarise the information in the text with a diagram, a flowchart or a table.
• Compose questions about a text. These can be questions for other audiences (such as younger students), their peers or you as their teacher, or they can be questions that they themselves would like answers to.

Pause for thought Which of the active reading strategies in this unit are you already aware of? Which of the active reading strategies would you recommend to your colleagues?