This document discusses skimming and scanning as key reading comprehension skills. It defines skimming as quickly identifying main ideas by reading openings, closings, headings and first sentences of paragraphs. Scanning is searching for specific terms. Examples where skimming and scanning are useful include newspapers to get general news, magazines to find articles of interest, and schedules to find times. The document provides tips for how to skim, such as reading openings and closings, and how to scan, like looking for bold or italicized text.

2. NAME- SANTOKI SACHIN D.
ENROLLMENT NO.-160210116042
BRANCH-IT
SEM-1
SUB-COMMUNICATION SKILLS
TOPIC-SKIMMING AND SCANNING

3. • Hi... Welcome
• This is a ppt on skimming and scanning.a key
reading comprehension skill

4. Skimming and scanning are especially valuable when there is
only one item of information that you need to find from a
particular passage.
• Skimming and scanning are very rapid reading
methods in which you glance at a passage to
find specific information .these reading
methods make it easier for you to grasp large
amount of material, especially when you’ re
previewing.they are also useful when you
don’t need to know every word.

5. SKIMMING
• Quickly identify main ideas of a text
• Skimming is 3 to 4 times faster regular reading
• Used when there is a lot of material and a
short amount of time

6. HOW TO SKIMMING
• Read the first and last paragraph
• Read heading,subheadings,titles,subtitles and
illustrations
• Read the first sentence of every paragraph
• Skimming works well with dates, names and
places

7. EXAMPLES OF SKIMMING
• The newspaper- to quickly get the general
news of the day
• Magazines-to quickly discover which articles
you would like to read in more detail
• Business and travel brouchures –to quickly get
informed

8. SCANNING
• Use to search for key terms
• When you know what you are looking for you
can through texts to find the information
• Sourece will have the answers you are looking
for

9. HOW TO SCANNING
• First look at how the author organizes his
information
• Look for bold faces , italics, or different sized
fonts
• The auther may also put key information in
the margins of pages

10. EXAMPLES OF SCANNING
• in scanning student can find specific
information as number and names
• A google search list on the internet
• A bus /airplane schedule
• A conference guide

11. THANK YOU