Skimming

What is the Skimming?

Skimming involves searching for the main ideas by reading the first and last paragraphs, taking into account other signs of organization, such as summaries, used by the author.

Skimming is used to quickly identify the main ideas of a text. When you read the newspaper, you're probably not reading it word for word, instead you're scanning the text. Skimming is done at a speed three to four times faster than normal playback. People often skim when they have lots of material to read in a limited amount of time. Use saved when you want to see if an object can be of interest in your research. There are many strategies that can be used when skimming. Some people read the first and last paragraphs using headings, summarizes and other organizers as they move down the page or screen. You can read the title, subtitles, subheading, and illustrations. Consider reading the first sentence of each paragraph. This technique is useful when you are looking for specific information rather than reading for comprehension. Skimming works well to find dates, names and places. It can be used to review graphs, tables and graphs.

• Why Skimming is used?

It consists in giving a quick read, identifying key ideas or phrases, it is not necessary to read every word of the text. It reads the first sentence of each paragraph and seeks to identify the key words or phrases each. At the end are extracted and recorded in order to uncover the gist of the text.

do not need to read everything. Reading questions are specific uses different types of keys, through drawings and the same questions will indicate what you will find exactly.

• How do I use this type of reading?

It is a fast reading technique which is used to locate the general sense of reading or some part of it. This technique will now long time and gives you a general idea of ​​what this text or paragraph.

The purpose of this lesson is to teach students how and why skim textual material. Skimming allows students to begin to identify the main ideas of a text by reading the first and last paragraphs, sentences from other paragraphs (topic sentences), and taking into account other organization tracks like the title, bold , italics, words in capital letters, etc. saved titles, students not looking for specific information, such as the scanning. Skimming allows students to cover a large amount of textual material in a limited amount of time.

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