 Scanning: for a specific focus

 The technique you use when you're looking up a

name in the phone book: you move your eye

quickly over the page to find particular words or
phrases that are relevant to the task you're
doing.
 You jump directly to the information.
 You search a text very quickly to find information

you want.
 Skimming: for getting the gist of
something
 The technique you use when you're going

through text you read quickly to get the main

points, and skip over the detail.
 Previewing: Learning about a text before really
reading it.
 Previewing enables readers to get a sense of

what the text is about and how it is organized

before reading it closely. This simple strategy
includes seeing what you can learn from the
head notes or other introductory material,
skimming to get an overview of the content and
organization, and identifying the rhetorical
situation.
 One way to enter a text is to preview titles, subtitles,
visuals, and other text features and make a
prediction about the topic and purpose of the text.
 The "Previewing and Predicting" strategy will lead
you through a series of questions that will help them
make an accurate prediction.
 These predictions help to think about what they
already know about the topic. The ability to access
prior knowledge helps to develop a critical schema
(or cognitive map) that they can use to increase their
comprehension.
 Previewing: reviewing titles, section headings,
and photo captions to get a sense of the
structure and content of a reading selection
 Predicting: using knowledge of the subject

matter to make predictions

 Skimming and scanning: using a quick survey

of the text to get the main idea, identify text

structure, confirm or question predictions
 Summarizing requires you to determine
what is important in what you are reading
and to put it into your own words.
Instruction :
 Identify or generate main ideas
 Connect the main or central ideas
 Eliminate unnecessary information
 Remember what you read
Using the context of surrounding words and
sentences, you will be able to figure out the
meaning of new and unfamiliar words.
 Practice looking for new and unfamiliar

words in prepared sentences and use context

to determine meanings of words.
 Readers understand the most important idea
about what is being read. This idea is often
stated in a sentence in the passage, whereas
other sentences comprise pieces of
information that tell more about the most
important idea.