Skimming and Scanning

What is scanning?

• Quickly reading over a text to get the general gist.
• Quickly reading over a text to find some specific information which is focused upon.
• Taking the time to understand the whole text in depth.

Tags

CCSS.RF 4.3.A

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.3.4A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What is skimming?

• Quickly reading over a text to get the general gist.
• Quickly reading over a text to find a specific piece of information which is focused upon
• Taking the time to understand the whole text in depth.

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.4C

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4B

Looking through a Google search list is an example of...?

• Skimming

• Scanning

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

Looking up the meaning of a word in the Dictionary is an example of...?

• Skimming

• Scanning

Tags

CCSS.RF 4.3.A

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.4A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.5.4A

Looking through a magazine to check what articles to read is an example of...?

• Skimming

• Scanning

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.2B

When you read the opening and closing of the paragraph or text, you are...

• skimming

• scanning

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

Skimming is mostly used while reading a newspaper or magazine.

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RF 4.3.A

CCSS.RF.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.4C

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.5.4A

If you reading a patient's case notes and needed to find some specific information, which reading strategy would be most useful?

• Skimming
• Scanning

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Looking for your flight number at the airport information board is an example of...?

• Skimming

• Scanning

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

You find your name in the student's list. This is ...

• skimming

• scanning

• none of them

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10