Reading skills: Skim or Scan?

Key words and numbers can help with...

• skimming

• scanning

What sort of reading do you use to find a word in a dictionary?

• skimming

• scanning

• careful reading

If you want to find the football results in a paper, do you...

• skim

• scan

• read carefully

If you want to see quickly what ingredients you need in a recipe, do you...

• skim

• scan

• read carefully

If you look at all the headlines in a paper, what are you doing?

• skimming

• scanning

If you are reading to find your team's score, are you...

• skimming

• scanning

• careful reading

Scan the TV programme to find out what time you can see the news on BBC One.

• 20.00

• 20.27

• 20.30

Scan the TV programme to find out who presents 'Great Movie Mistakes'.

• Robert Webb

• John Stansfield

• Kate Humble

Scan the TV programmes to find out what is on at 19.30.

• World News

• Countryfile

• Born to be Wild

Scan the TV programmes to find a science programme.

• Born to be Wild

• Countryfile

• The Science of Space