Skimming involves the search for the main ideas by reading the first and last paragraphs, taking into account other organizational signs, such as summaries, used by the author.
Skimming is used to quickly identify the main ideas of a text.
What is Skimming usedfor?
It consists of giving a quick reading, identifying key ideas or phrases; It is not necessary to read every word of the text. Read the first sentence of each paragraph and try to identify the phrases or keywords of each of them. In the end they are extracted and annotated in order to discover the general idea of the text.
How is this type of reading used?
It is a rapid reading technique where it is used to locate the general meaning of the reading or a certain part of it. This technique now takes you a long time and gives you a very general idea of what the text or paragraph is about.
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students how and why skim textual material.
WHAT IS SCANNING?
Topic principal
Scanning is the action of analyzing a text, to get valuable information. Either by simple curiosity or with an academic or work purpose.
SCANNIG EXAMPLES
His eyes were scanning her face, cutting like a laser through all it encountered. Hilton, John Buxton PASSION IN THE PEAK (2002) Ninety seconds later, she was on the roof, crouching beneath a wooden water tower, scanning her surroundings. Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)
