This document defines and explains the reading comprehension skills of scanning, previewing, and predicting. Scanning involves quickly searching a text to find specific information like names or dates. Previewing means examining aspects of a text like the title, headings, and visuals to gather information before reading. Predicting refers to making educated guesses about what will be in the text based on information gathered from previewing. The document provides examples of how to use each skill and concludes that scanning, previewing, and predicting can help readers understand texts more effectively.

1. Extensive Reading
Reading
Comprehension Skill
Compiled by
Ade Tri Utami Kesumah Putri

2. What is scanning?
What is previewing?
What is predicting?
Reading Comprehension Skill

3. What is reading
comprehension skill?
The ability to understand what we
read where words have context and
texts have meaning.
Allow us to read proficiently, learn
effectively, problem-solve,
strategize, conceptualize,

4. What is Scanning?
Scanning
Read
something
quickly
Find some specific
information (key words)
: name, telephone
number, date, number,
etc.

5. How to Scanning?
Search for key
words
Move quickly
over the page
Less reading and
more searching

6. What is Priviewing?
When you gather
information about a book
by examining its over, you
are PREVIEWING.

7. How to Priviewing?
What can
you do to
preview a
text?
Read the title
Read the
headings/sub-
headings
Look at the
visuals
Scan for
special
terms/words
Skim the
review
questions

8. What is Predicting?
When you preview, you look
for information. Then you can
make guesses about what is in
the letter. When you make
guesses like this, you are
PREDICTING.

9. Conclusion
• Scanning is a reading technique to be used when you want to find
specific information quickly.
• In scanning you have a question in your mind and you read a
passage only to find the answer, ignoring unrelated information.
• Previewing is when you gather information about a book by
examining its over.
• The aim of previewing is to help you predict or make some
“educated guesses” about what is in the book.
• When you preview, you look for information. Then you can make
guesses about what is in the letter. When you make guesses like
this, you are predicting.
• Previewing and predicting help you read and understand better. This
is because you are already thinking about what you will read.

10. Sources
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Importsnt Strategies For Speeding Up Your Reading.
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/54407485/Scanning-Previewing-
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