Reading for details.

What is scanning?

• Quickly reading over to get the general gist.

• Quickly reading over a text to find some specific information which is focused upon.

What is skimming?

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  Quickly reading over a text to get the general gist.

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  Quickly reading over a text to find a specific piece of information which is focused upon

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

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  Skimming

• Scanning

Skimming is mostly used while reading a newspaper or magazine.

• True

• False

Skimming techniques include

• Looking for the main ideas of the article

• Looking for specific words, phrases, names, dates, or places

Scanning techniques include

• looking for the main ideas of the article

• looking for specific words, phrases, names, dates, or places