Skimming and Scanning

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.

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

• skimming

• scanning

Looking where to buy Avengers movie in a magazine is an example of...?

• Skimming

• Scanning

Skim the TV programmes to find out what time you can watch a programme about the countryside.

• 18.15

• 18.30

• 19.30

Scan the TV programme to find out what time you can see the news on BBC One.

20.27 BBC News and Regional News The latest national and international news stories from the BBC, followed by the weather.

• 20.00

• 20.27

• 20.30

What sort of reading is skimming?

• quick reading

• slow reading

If you skim a newspaper what are you doing?

• reading the front page

• seeing what's in the paper

What is the primary purpose of skimming a text?

• To understand the text in detail

• To find specific information

• To get the general idea of the text

• To memorize the text

Which reading technique would you use to locate a specific date in a history book?

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Detailed reading

• Summarizing