Share GRADE 10- READING SKILLS
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What is scanning?
read for specific information
What is skimming?
read for main idea
A student quickly reads the first sentence of each paragraph in an article to find out what the article is about.
Scanning or skimming? A student quickly reads the first sentence of each paragraph in an article to find out what the article is about.
skimming
scanning or skimming? A student looks through a restaurant menu to find the price of a hamburger.
scanning
scanning or skimming? A student reads the headlines of news stories on a website to see which one they want to read in detail.
skimming
scanning or skimming? 4️⃣ A student searches a train timetable to find the time of the next train to London.
scanning
You are looking for a date/ a place/ a person’s name. You need to scan/ skim?
scan
