More After Reading Strategies
The following two strategies can be used with both narrative and expository text.
Summarizing can take many forms but should be modeled by you first and then practiced with the whole class, practiced by small groups and, finally, practiced individually. Use the article: Get the GIST: A Summarizing Strategy for Any Content Area with your students to help them get the "gist" of the material.
Students can also journal based on a format you provide or based on their own thoughts and organization. They can use a double-entry journal which requires them to answer specific questions before reading and revisit those questions after reading.
There are many other After Reading strategies appropriate for making connections between what is known and what is new. On Google.com alone there are over 10,000 results for the search term "after reading strategies."