Reading With a Purpose

Reading Strategies & Reading Purpose

ESL 0106: Review of SS10​

​Reading quickly to get the gist (the topic and claim, main points, and organization)

​​Skimming

​Reading quickly to find specific information (names, dates, numbers, phrases, etc.)

Scanning

​Read carefully to understand the article clearly

Be able to explain the thesis and how the body paragraphs support it

Be able to answer comprehension questions​

Reading Thoroughly

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​Read carefully to understand and evaluate the article

Bring your own background and experience to the reading

Give examples beyond those in the article

Respond/react to the author's claims​

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Reading Critically

Multiple Choice

If you are reading a textbook chapter in order to pass a closed-book multiple-choice test about the material, you should:

• skim

• scan

• read thoroughly

• read critically

Multiple Choice

___ is reading quickly to find specific information.

• Reading thoroughly

• Reading critically

• Skimming

• Scanning

Multiple Choice

If your BIO 1010 instructor asks you to flip the chart on p. 211 and find the author's example of a prokaryotic cell, you would:

• skim

• scan

• read thoroughly

• read critically

Multiple Choice

If you are looking at a list of Google search results to find an open urgent care center near you, you would most likely want to ___.

• skim

• scan

• read thoroughly

• read critically

Multiple Choice

If you are looking at a list of Yelp reviews to find the best urgent care center near you, you would most likely want to ___.

• skim

• scan

• read thoroughly

• read critically

Multiple Choice

___ is reading quickly to determine the thesis, organization, and main supporting information.

• Reading thoroughly

• Reading critically

• Skimming

• Scanning

Multiple Choice

You are researching an essay for EGL 1010. Your teacher has posted 20 articles online and said you must choose 3. The first thing you would want to do it ____ to get the gist of the articles and narrow down the list.

• skim

• scan

• read thoroughly

• read critically

Multiple Choice

Your PAS 1000 teacher has asked you to write a 1-page summary and response about a web article on funding education. You would need to ___.

• skim

• scan

• read thoroughly

• read critically

Multiple Choice

You're looking at the PGCC directory to try to find a professor's email address. You would ___.

• skim

• scan

• read thoroughly

• read critically

Multiple Choice

Your ESL 0106 teacher asks you to find an article we didn't cover in class and write a summary of it. You should:

• skim

• scan

• read thoroughly

• read critically

Open Ended

Give an example of when you would use scanning in your daily life/work.

Open Ended

Give an example of when you would use critical reading for school.