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Scanning
is a focused and rapid way of reading something to locate specific information
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Like
reading a phone list to find your friend’s phone number or scanning a menu to
find the price of drinks
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This
is not the same as reading quickly to find the main idea (skimming)
Purpose:
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To
help students to read text quickly and accurately in order to find answers to
specific questions
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To
help students find specific information in lists, manuals, advertisement, on a
website, reading passages
Procedures:
Before scanning:
1. Know your specific question and
understand it.What are you scanning to
find?Is there a KEY word you are looking for?
2. Preview the text to see how
information is arranged. Where do you
think the information you are looking for might be?
3. Create a mental image of the
fact, word or phrase you are looking for.Is it a number? Then scan for a number. Is it a name? Then scan for a name.
4. Think of synonyms that might be
used instead
5. Look for clues the author might
give you
How to scan
1. Move your eyes in a scanning
pattern
2. Use your finger to scan
3. Don’t stop to read until your
eyes see one of the key words you are looking for
4. Look for ways the writer
organized the reading—headings, numbers, signal words, words in bold or italics
5. Use your finger to guide you down
the page from line to line looking for your key words
Palomar College. (n.d.). Power
reading online. Retrieved Jan. 20,
2102 from: http://www.palomar.edu/reading/r110hybrid/Module%204/mod4.1scanning.htm
Beare, K. (2012).
Reading comprehension
skills—Scanning. Retrieved
from: http://esl.about.com/od/readinglessonplan1/a/Reading-Comprehension-Skills-Scanning.htm
Mack, D. &Ojalvo, H.E.
(2009). Skimming and scanning: Using the
Times to develop reading skills. Retrieved
from: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/skimming-and-scanning-using-the-times-to-develop-reading-skills/
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