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English Lecture (Reading Techniques)

The document discusses reading techniques of skimming and scanning. It defines skimming as reading quickly to get the general ideas of a passage by identifying important ideas. Skimming is used for previewing, reviewing, and determining the main idea. Scanning is defined as rapidly searching a text for specific details. The purposes of scanning include finding a word, phone number, address, program time, or price. Both skimming and scanning allow readers to efficiently obtain key information from a text.

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English Lecture (Reading Techniques)

The document discusses reading techniques of skimming and scanning. It defines skimming as reading quickly to get the general ideas of a passage by identifying important ideas. Skimming is used for previewing, reviewing, and determining the main idea. Scanning is defined as rapidly searching a text for specific details. The purposes of scanning include finding a word, phone number, address, program time, or price. Both skimming and scanning allow readers to efficiently obtain key information from a text.

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ENGLISH10: READING TECHNIQUES

Reading Techniques 4. Trying to find source material for


a research paper
Reading is the method of communication that
enables the person to turn writing into a meaning. It What do we skim?
allows the reader to convert a written text to a
meaningful language that independence,
comprehension, and fluency.

Reading Speed

 Normal:
- 200 to 220 words per minute
 Average:
- 250 to 350 WPM
 Good: Purposes of Skimming:
- 500 to 700 WPM  To see what is in the news on a website or
 Exceptional: on a paper
- 1000 WPM or more  To look through a text to decide whether
you want to read it or not
Reading Techniques:
 To look through the television
 Skimming guide/program schedule to plan your
 Scanning evening
 To see through a catalog to choose an offer
a) Skimming  To go through the options after searching
- Is to read quickly to get the general something on Google
ideas of a passage.
Skimming: Steps to Follow
- It also refers to the act of identifying
the important ideas contained in a 1. Read the title first.
text. 2. Then read the sub-headings (if any) of the
text
When to skim:
3. If there is no sub-heading, read the first line
1. Previewing or first few lines of the text. It will give you
2. Reviewing the gist of the text.
3. Determining the main idea from 4. If you want to skim it further, you may read
a long selection the first lines of all the paragraphs and focus
ENGLISH10: READING TECHNIQUES
on the emphasized words in them to get Scanning – Get only what you need.
more ideas about the text.
 Scanning is rapidly running your eyes over
the text in order to locate specific details.

Benefits of Skimming:

1. Find relevant sections  Three steps to scanning include:


2. Get the quick snapshot
3. Gain overview of the topic

b) Scan the main information:


What is scanning?
- Scanning is the act of searching for
particular information in a text with a
particular approach.

Purposes of Scanning:

 To search for a word in a dictionary or index


 To find a phone number or an address in a
directory
 To check the time schedule of a program in
an agenda
 To check the price of a specific item in a
catalog
 To know a particular information from a text

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