Skimming and Scanning a text Skimming is Scanning

Skimming and Scanning a text

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Double entry notes The text • Features such as photos, captions, heading, columns My response • I think it’s a factual text

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Double entry notes The text • Features such as photos, captions, heading, columns • Key words such as names dates, places and organisations My response • A factual text • Could be a report on an actual event

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Double entry notes The text • Features such as photos, captions, heading, columns • Key words such as names dates, places and organisations • Photo shows choppy sea, stormy sky, upside down boat, orange rescue vest My response • A factual text • Could be a report on an actual event • I think someone may have been rescued at sea.

Double entry notes The text My response • Vendie Globe, Thierry Dubois • Solo race • Don’t know these wordsone is a name • Were they racing against each other? Where were the other yachts? • How big were the waves in the tsunami? ? • Dictionary meaning? ? ? • Is there an ocean near Canberra? • 23 metre wave • Stricken • Canberra search & rescue

Marking or coding the text Code Description * Interesting BK Background knowledge ? Question / wonder C Confused I Important L Learned something new S Surprising information TS / TT / TW V Text connection Vocabulary

Scan the text • What is the text about? Run your eyes over the text looking for more clues. • Highlight or mark the text. • Record your thoughts in the right hand column. • Write down what the text was about in a couple of sentences.