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1. What do you know about skimming and scanning?

- Skimming and scanning is a reading and research strategy. Both reading


strategies can be useful when completing research projects or when we need to
find answers from a text.

2. Why is skimming and scanning important?


- Skimming and scanning is important because it can save our time when we read
a text. We can read the text and know the useful information in the text quickly
with these reading skills. It may help us to do the research and study rapidly while
we need to answer the questions.

3. What is skimming and scanning?


- Skimming is a fast reading to get general or main idea of a text. It will let us get
the overview or main points of the text in the short time.
- Scanning is reading a text quickly in order to find specific information and we
already know that what we want to look for.

4. How to skim and scan a text?


- When skimming we are looking for keywords, bold words, headings or titles and
first and last sentence or paragraph by quickly.
- When scanning we are searching the heading or titles. We are doing more
searching and less reading while using the scanning skill. We are just looking for
specific words, numbers, name and others details. We move our eyes quickly to
find the details that we need

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