Grade 5

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.

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.

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

• Skimming

• Scanning

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

• Skimming

• Scanning

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

• Skimming

• Scanning

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

• skimming

• scanning

Skimming is mostly used while reading a newspaper or magazine.

• True
• False

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

• Skimming
• Scanning

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

• Skimming

• Scanning

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

• skimming

• scanning

• none of them