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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
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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
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3 types of Skimming
Preview Skimming
Overview Skimming
Review Skimming
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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.
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Method:
• Read the first paragraph.
• The headings.
•
First sentences of later paragraphsand sections.
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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.
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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.
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When it
can beused?
Reading some
general question
in mind
In making decisions on
how to approach a text
To build student
confidence
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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?
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• 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
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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.
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What is Scanning?
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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.)
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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)
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Role of the Student
Forms questions before
reading.
Looks for contextualclues.
Aware of the graphic
form that the
answer may take
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Similarity betweenSkimming and Scanning
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Similarity
• Skimming and scanning are reading
techniques that use rapid eye movement
and keywords to move quickly throughtext for slightly different purposes.
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Differences betweenSkimming and Scanning
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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
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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.