McGraw-Hill School Education Group, the leading provider of print and digital educational materials for students in grades PreK-12, has developed a new program for Texas students that helps build reading comprehension and enables them to become more active readers.  Texas Treasures utilizes a highlighting feature which alerts students to pause, reread, and interact with the text.  The hope that is in this interaction with the textbook, students will become more successful critical thinkers and will truly learn to analyze what they are reading.  Highlighting has proven a helpful strategy in that when something of true significance and importance comes along in the text, the student will be signaled.  This encourages students to not only recognize the important term or idea but also to ask themselves if they understand it.  The idea is that with this strategy, key concepts will not be missed.  As a former high school teacher, I think this strategy could be very helpful because I often noticed students reading right past the most important information without truly acknowledging it.  It is important that students learn how to pull the most valuable information from the text so that they not only understand the material but also that they know what to study and be able to recall.  If they do not learn this by the time they go to college, they will be in real trouble.