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Introduction to Reading in the

Primary School

Skimming And Scanning

WEEK 3

Azfar Afandi Bin Ahmad Nazri

Asyraf Siddiq Bin Mohd Said

Harzuwani Binti Wahab

Kamarunasrul Naim Bin Kamaruddin

Lee Li Wen

Marcini Anak Minggu



Skimming

Looking at a text

or chapter quickly

in order to have ageneral idea of

the contents

Requires a

greater degree of

reading and wordrecognition skills

A tool in which

the author's

sequence can beobserved



3 types of Skimming

Preview Skimming

Overview Skimming

Review Skimming



Preview Skimming

• A thorough reading

Used:

• in selecting a book

• in surveying a chapter before reading or

studying

• in finding appropriate material for use inresearch.



Method:

• Read the first paragraph.

• The headings.

•

First sentences of later paragraphsand sections.



Overview Skimming

•Reading text more thoroughly than you doin preview.

• Method:

i. read the first paragraph

ii. the headings

iii. first sentences of paragraphsiv. aware of paragraph patterns, and clue

words.



Review Skimming• Occurs after reading

• To re-familiarise yourself with material youhave previously skimmed.

Method:

i. Try to remember as many of the ideasand details clearly.

ii. to note significant details - names, places,

terms.Example: You may be trying to establish inyour mind a sequence of events.



When it

can beused?

Reading some

general question

in mind

In making decisions on

how to approach a text

To build student

confidence



Role of the teacher

•

Before the students start reading, the teachershould guide students to ask themselves the

following questions:

– What kind of audience was the text written for?

Was it, for example, the general public, technical

readers, or academic students?

– What type of text is it? Is it, for example, a formal

letter, an advertisement, or a set of instructions? – What was the author's purpose? Was it , for

example, to persuade, to inform or to instruct?



• The teacher should make the following clear

to students before assigning a skimming

exercise:

– the purpose of the exercise

– how deeply the text is to be read



Role of the student

• Students read through the text in thefollowing manner:

– Read the title if any.

–

Read the introduction or the first paragraph. – Read the first sentence of each of the following

paragraphs.

– Read any headings or sub-headings.

– Look at any pictures or phrases that are inboldface or italics

– Read the summary or last paragraph.



What is Scanning?



When Scanning is used???

Used often with

technical, scientific or

professional materials

Valuable skill for second

language learners to develop

(do not require a detailed read

of a text.)



Role of Teacher

Selects passages (do include specific

information.)

Use authentic materials (commonlyscanned in real life)

Ask students before they scan a text to

note how the information is organized inthe text.

Remind students that as they read carefully

to find the required information(pay

particular attention to titles and keywords)



Role of the Student

Forms questions before

reading.

Looks for contextualclues.

Aware of the graphic

form that the

answer may take



Similarity betweenSkimming and Scanning



Similarity

• Skimming and scanning are reading

techniques that use rapid eye movement

and keywords to move quickly throughtext for slightly different purposes.



Differences betweenSkimming and Scanning



Difference

Skimming Scanning

•rapidly covers a great deal of

material to get the main idea

•rapidly covers a great deal of

material to locate a piece of

fact

•pre-reading

•reviewing

•reading

•for finding a specific name,

fact and so on without reading

the entire article.

•frequent use •skip large part of text

•1000 words per minutes •1500 or more words per

minute



Difference

Steps:

•title

•introduction or lead-in paragraph

•first paragraph completely

•relation between subheading

•1st sentence - last sentence

•dip in text for clue words, proper

nouns, capitalized words

•final paragraph completely

Steps:

•keep in mind what you are

searching for

•anticipate the form of info, numbers,

proper nouns

•analyze the organization

-if brief, may scan in single search

-if lengthy, may need to skimming to

determined which part.

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