SKIMMING AND SCANNING

Skimmig and Scanning

• Help us to find information easily and quickly, it is a really useful skill to have and will help you answer comprehension question

SKIMMING

• It consists of giving a quick reading, identifying ideas or key phrases; It is not necessary to read every word in the text. The first sentence of each paragraph is read and it is a question of identifying the phrases or keywords of each one of them. In the end they are extracted and annotated in order to discover the general idea of the text

SKIMMING EXAMPLES

• The news paper- to quickly get the general news of the day
• Magazines- to quickly discover which articles you would like to read in more detail
• bussinesand travel brochures- to quickly get information
• Start to guess or anticipate the details we are going to read about
• think about the topic.

SCANNING

• It is a reading technique to be used when you want to find specific information quickly. in scanning you have a question in your mind and you read a passage only to find the answer, ingnoring unrelated information.

SCANNING EXAMPLES

• Look for key words related to your topic
• look through bulleted information and sidebards
• look for words in larger font sizes
• look for bold prind and italics
• a conference guide.