Reading strategies

The following are strategies for reading :

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Critical reading

• All of the above

________ is a type of fast reading.

You might use scanning to:

• Fast reading

• Look up a word in a dictionary or index

• Too have much detail

Check what time your Programme is on television

• Critical reading

• Skimming

• Scanning

• All of the above

Browse through a book to see if you want to read it

• Skimming

• Critical reading

• Scanning

• All of the above

________ _______ is the ability to read material, draw conclusions and collect information.

Use critical reading skills to:

• Decide why you reading this piece

• Look up details or prices in a catalogue

• See what's in the news

Skimming is slow reading to get to the gist of what you read.

• False

• True

Scanning is fast reading to find a particular piece of information in a text.

• False

• True

Critical reading is slower and more careful reading so that you don't miss anything.

• False

• True