3.6 Turn It Into A Question

Introduction

Active readers ask questions before, during, and after they read. Questioning leads the reader deeper into the text and encourages thinking. In this lesson, you will explore a quick strategy called Turning It Into A Question that can help you locate the main ideas from a piece of text. You will also use Zooming In to help you.

You've learned to zoom in on text features so you know what headings and subheadings are. As you can see here, the first page of this article has a title and some headings. We can use these headings to help focus our reading and to determine the main points of the article. Read on to find out how.

Titles and Headings