Which term refers to interacting with a text by making notes in the margin?

• A. Textual marking
• B. Question generation
• C. Graphic organizers
• D. Metacognitive skills

Answer: (A)

Annotating a text by writing notes in the margins is an active reading habit. It helps you engage with what you’re reading, capture questions, highlight key ideas, and connect new information to what you already know. The term for this margin-note practice is textual marking. Generating questions is about creating questions about the text, not the act of writing in the margins. Graphic organizers are visual tools used to map out information, and metacognitive skills describe thinking about your own thinking, a broader set of abilities than simply making margin notes.