Teaching reading for test-taking is included where a reading passage and questions are displayed. The questions include an evidence set and a thinking set, where the evidence set includes one or more evidence questions designed to be answered by referring to the reading passage, and where the thinking questions are designed to be answered by analyzing at least a portion of the reading passage. A marking input is received including at least one marking corresponding to a portion of the reading passage, where the at least one marking includes at least one indicator. Each indicator indicates a category of text associated with each marked portion of the reading passage. A determination is made as to whether the reading passage includes an appropriate portion of the reading passage. A response is evaluated according to the determination.