The objectives of this mixed method study were 1) to develop a strategic reading task to promote Thai students’ higher-order thinking, 2) to study the strategic reading task to promote Thai students’ higher-order thinking, and 3) to investigate the attitude of Thai students towards the strategic reading task to promote Thai students’ higher-order thinking . The participants of the study were 43 second year English major students of the Faculty of Education in Academic Year 2016. They were purposive selected through purposive sampling for during the research conduction, they enrolled in Reading 2 Course. Reading-to-write tasks, pre-test and post-test, attitude questionnaire, and interview were employed for data collection. The collected data were analyzed for t-test, means, and standard deviation in terms of quantitative data. Content analysis was used to analyze the qualitative data. The findings presented that 1) students’ higher-order thinking were developed through the strategic reading tasks with statistically significant at .01, 2) the strategic reading tasks were able to promote students’ higher-order thinking of good and moderate groups of students at high level (X =4.37 และ X = 4.08) respectively. The attitudes of students towards the strategic reading task were at high level (X =4.19).