CHATT, a during and after reading strategy, encourages students to actively engage with text as they read. Students code the text as they read and then transfer the information to a summary sheet, thereby creating study notes. The Summary section provides the opportunity for the teacher to give key information and connect new information with previously learned information if necessary.Explicitly teaching key reading comprehension and learning skills - making connections, self-questioning, visualising, inferring, determining importance, summarising, synthesising and self-monitoring - can help students become more purposeful, active readers, thinkers and learners.