Which practice involves making notes in margins while reading an informational text?

• A. Text coding
• B. Haiku writing
• C. Maze testing
• D. Coarticulation study

Answer: (A)

Making notes in the margins while reading an informational text is about actively engaging with the material by tagging parts of the text with brief notes, symbols, or codes. This practice is called text coding. It helps you identify main ideas, key details, evidence, and any questions you have as you read, turning the page into a visual map of your understanding. With margin notes, you can quickly see the structure of the information and locate specific details later, which makes comprehension and review more efficient. The other options don’t fit because they describe activities unrelated to annotating informational text: haiku writing is creating poetry, maze testing isn’t a reading strategy, and coarticulation study belongs to speech science.