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    Skimming involves rapidly reading a text to understand the general idea or main points, while scanning specifically looks for a particular piece of information. Skimming techniques include looking at the title, introduction, first paragraph, subheadings and final paragraph. Scanning requires more focused steps like formulating a question and closely reading each paragraph to locate the answer. Both are useful reading strategies to efficiently gather overview information or hone in on specifics.

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    Skimming involves rapidly reading a text to understand the general idea or main points, while scanning specifically looks for a particular piece of information. Skimming techniques include looking at the title, introduction, first paragraph, subheadings and final paragraph. Scanning requires more focused steps like formulating a question and closely reading each paragraph to locate the answer. Both are useful reading strategies to efficiently gather overview information or hone in on specifics.

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    1 Skimming Scanning

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    Skimming involves rapidly reading a text to understand the general idea or main points, while scanning specifically looks for a particular piece of information. Skimming techniques include looking at the title, introduction, first paragraph, subheadings and final paragraph. Scanning requires more focused steps like formulating a question and closely reading each paragraph to locate the answer. Both are useful reading strategies to efficiently gather overview information or hone in on specifics.

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    2.

    1 SKIMMING AND
    SCANNING
    DIFFERENCE
    SKIMMING FOR GENERAL
    INFORMATION

    • The purpose of skimming is to find general information in a text such as the


    main idea of the text or of each paragraph. Steps involved in skimming are:

    While skimming, look


    for the tile,
    introduction, first
    Move our eyes rapidly Read important points
    paragraph, sub-
    over the text in the text selectively
    heading, first sentence
    of each paragraph,
    final paragraph
    EXERCISE 1

    10 Individual
    Page 129
    minutes work
    SCANNING FOR SPECIFIC
    INFORMATION

    • As scanning helps us to locate specific information in a text, it requires more


    steps compared to skimming. These steps are:
    EXERCISE 2

    Page 10 Pair
    130 minutes work

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