Reading Strategies Scanning

Glancing through a magazine article to decide if it is worth reading in depth

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Close Reading

__________ is usually done when reading long paragraphs or stories during exams and activities.

• intensive reading

• skimming

• extensive reading

• scanning

Chris' report in Social Studies must include important dates and people mentioned in the history book assigned to him. What reading strategy must he use to prepare his report?

• extensive reading

• scanning

• skimming

• intensive reading

In the qualifying exams for the campus journalists club, Miggy has to read news articles that are two to three paragraphs long. Since he's only given an hour to answer the exam, which reading strategy will be the most effective in this scenario?

• extensive reading

• scanning

• intensive reading

• skimming

This reading strategy is also called gist reading.

• intensive reading

• scanning

• skimming

• extensive reading

Maria looks for her friend’s number in her phonebook. What reading style does she use?

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Close Reading

Elena and Liza are both sports lovers. So, they keep on waiting for the results of their favorite volleyball team game on the newspaper’s sports page. They only look for the score of the winning team. Which reading style do they apply?

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Close Reading

Manang Nena reads just the title and the leading sentence in the first paragraph of the text. She gets already the point of the author. What reading strategy does she use?

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Close Reading

Joselito will be having a long quiz the next day. He needs to review the lessons discussed but he doesn’t want to reread everything. Which reading style is appropriate to use?

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Close Reading

Which reading strategy involves quickly searching for specific information in a text?

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Close Reading

• Intensive Reading