Skimming and Scanning

If you want to find the football game results in a paper, what would you do?

• Read carefully

• Scan

• Skim

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

• Careful reading

• Skimming

• Scanning

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4C

What sort of reading technique do you use to find out what's on TV today?

• Skimming

• Scanning

What reading technique will you use if you want to find out the falling action in a short story?

• Skimming

• Scanning

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

What are you doing if you are skimming a newspaper?

• Reading the front page

• Seeing what's in the paper

If you want to know the main idea in the paragraph that you're reading, what would you do?

• Skim the paragraph

• Scan the paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

If you're holding a magazine and you want to discover which articles you would like to read in more detail, what would you do?

• Skim

• Scan

If you're travelling and holding a brochure, what would you do to quickly get informed about the city you're visiting?

• Skim the travel brochure

• Scan the travel brochure

You want to know the bus schedule for the next day.

• Skim

• Scan

What will you do if you want to use a google search list on the internet?

• Skim

• Scan

Tags

CCSS.W.7.8