Reading Strategies Scanning

Looking for specific information within a text, to answer an exam question

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Close Reading

Reading a TV Magazine to find out what time a programme is on

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Close Reading

Using a dictionary to find the meaning of a word

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Close reading

Looking for your friend's post on instagram

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Close Reading

If you are reading to find your team’s score, you are ...

• Skimming

• Scanning

• careful reading

• Skipping

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

• skimming

• scanning

Scanning and skimming are both reading strategies.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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 sort of reading do you use to find out what's on tv ?

• skimming

• scanning

• careful reading

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