Scanning involves quickly moving your eyes across a line or page to locate specific information, guided by questions. Synonyms are words with similar meanings listed in a thesaurus. Graphics like diagrams and tables in textbooks clarify complex relationships and summarize key ideas to enhance understanding. An essay is a brief nonfiction composition that aims to inform, persuade, entertain, or analyze its subject.

2.  Scanning to Determine Specific
Meaning and Information
Scanning involves moving your eyes quickly
across a line or down a page to locate
particular information. You scan the
material to look for a specific information,
such as a date, a definition, or a name and
number in a telephone book. Through
guide questions, you can be easily directed
to the specific meaning and information
you are looking for.

3. 1. A listing of situations that affirm the title.
2. The meaning of I am an island.
 Using Synonyms
You learned in the lower years that synonyms
are words that are similar in meaning or are closely
related ideas. A thesaurus, the most commonly
used specialized dictionary, lists synonyms and
antonyms.

4. 1. modern – contemporary
2. misunderstanding – conflict
3. retreat – approach
4. condemn – uphold
5. commodities – goods
6. refuse – approach
7. solution – remedy
8. tear – build
9. quarantine – seclude
10. share - keep

5. The 1. modern age is in a hurry, and livelihood is
more important. Man races through his pleasures in a
crowd of 2. accelerating machines…. There is no desire
to consider whether life is in 3. harmony with the
intellect, for the mind of man is also engaged in pulling
the rope of the huge car of livelihood. Instead of music,
we hear hoarse shouts of “Push, boys, push!” He has to
spend most of his time with the crowd, not in the
company of his friends…. In the midst of all this 4. bustle
he has no will power to bypass 5. unadorned ugliness.
 simple
 noise
 increasing
 accord
 contemporary

6. The graphics in your textbooks and other
reading materials can clarify complex relationships,
untangle complicated descriptions, and
summarize key ideas. Interpreting, understanding,
and noting the effectiveness of textual aids like
graphic organizers, titles, non – linear illustrations,
will help you get the most from your reading. Most
graphics are easy to read once you recognize their
basic form, especially that of a diagram, a table,
and a chart or graph.

8. is a brief nonfiction composition that
offers an opinion on a subject.
Purpose of an essay:
 to inform
 to persuade
 to entertain the reader
 to analyze a subject

9. 1. What comes to your mind as you read
the title?
2. How did the writer justify the title?
3. How is the word bridge used in the
essay? How do we build bridges?
4. How is island used in the essay?
5. Why is every man compared to an
island?

10.  Brotherhood
 bridge
 love
 selfishness
 mistrust
 borders
 peace
 strife
 selfishness
 Conflict
 injustice
 division
 hunger
 self – interest
 misunderstanding
 walls
 friction
 hostility