Skim text to develop a general overview of content or to locate specific information. 0501.6.7

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1. Bats are Our Buddies! - An Internet hunt from Cindy O'Hora
2. Creating Scavenger Hunts - Create your own scavenger hunt to develop skimming techniques. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
3. Cyber Story - use some of these stories to practice skimming [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
4. How Not to Read The News Paper - includes a discussion of skimming the newspaper [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
5. Improving Your Reading in All School Subjects - suggestions on how to skim for specific subject assignments [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
6. Reading Comprehension Skills - Scanning - suggestions for ESL students could also benefit anyone who needs to skim or scan
7. Reading Faster - Most speed-reading methods are based on skim reading first and in reading groups of words. A mini-quiz follows this lesson
8. Research Building Blocks: Skim, Scan, and Scroll - students will read informational text, looking for supporting details.
9. Scanning Exercise - read very fast to find specific pieces of information
10. Skimming - suggestions on how to skim better
11. Skimming and Scanning - suggestions on how to use each process as you read
12. Skimming and Scanning - suggestions for readers ages 5 to 11
13. Skimming Exercise - read very fast to find only the main ideas of a text
14. Use Predictions to Help Kids Think Deeply about Books - Predicting involves more than trying to figure out what happens next. As kids find evidence to form hunches, they also ask questions, recall facts, reread, skim, infer, draw conclusions, and, ultimately, comprehend the text more fully. (3-5) The Prediction Book Report

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