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Which statement about skimming is accurate?Read the answer and worked solution →Skimming an essay: which parts give summary info?Read the answer and worked solution →A reader looks through a page only to find the date of an event. Which technique is this?Read the answer and worked solution →How fast is skimming versus normal reading?Read the answer and worked solution →Of the three types of reading claimed by speed-reading advocates, which is the slowest?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is visual reading the fastest type?Read the answer and worked solution →Which scientist said claims of reading 1,000 words per minute should be viewed with skepticism?Read the answer and worked solution →Who is thought to have coined the term speed reading in the late 1950s?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the purpose of finger tracing, also called meta-guiding?Read the answer and worked solution →What did Duggan and Payne find about skimming?Read the answer and worked solution →A reader says aloud what they think while reading, asks questions and rereads. Which strategy is this?Read the answer and worked solution →In the KWL strategy, what does the final step ask a reader to think about?Read the answer and worked solution →In a running record assessment, what does the teacher ask the child to do after reading?Read the answer and worked solution →Which assessment type is typically given at the end of a unit to measure learning?Read the answer and worked solution →A story is composed of which elements?Read the answer and worked solution →Which features are typical of informational books?Read the answer and worked solution →Which devices does poetry commonly use?Read the answer and worked solution →Why does choosing their own books help students?Read the answer and worked solution →What did the Reading Panel say on combining?Read the answer and worked solution →Which comprehension skill is being taught when pupils separate what is true from what is a belief?Read the answer and worked solution →The Reciprocal Questioning Procedure (ReQuest) was designed in 1969 by whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Previewing outlines or a contents page helps a reader set what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which strategy combines ideas from several texts to draw conclusions and compare?Read the answer and worked solution →A reader picks out the key ideas and summarizes the relevance of each. Which strategy is this?Read the answer and worked solution →Why do two readers sometimes interpret the same text differently?Read the answer and worked solution →Discussion classes let students do what?Read the answer and worked solution →Relating a text to experience is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →More hyperlinks per page were found to do what to students' understanding of an article?Read the answer and worked solution →Why can some philosophy or scientific writing be hard to read?Read the answer and worked solution →Reciprocal teaching trains pupils to do which four things?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which statement about skimming is accurate?

  1. It is slower than normal reading
  2. It gives better comprehension than reading
  3. It needs a pen under every line
  4. It searches for clues to the main idea
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Correct answer: D. It searches for clues to the main idea

1. Skimming is a speed-reading process. 2. It means visually searching sentences for clues to the main idea. 3. It is faster than normal reading and gives lower comprehension. _Source: Wikipedia, Speed reading, Skimming and scanning_

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Skimming an essay: which parts give summary info?

  1. Only the middle paragraphs
  2. Only the footnotes and credits
  3. The beginning and the ending
  4. Every second word on a page
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Correct answer: C. The beginning and the ending

1. Skimming aims at the overall idea quickly. 2. Reading the beginning and ending gives summary information. 3. Optionally the first sentence of each paragraph is added. _Source: Wikipedia, Speed reading, Skimming and scanning_

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A reader looks through a page only to find the date of an event. Which technique is this?

  1. Reciting the text
  2. Scanning the page
  3. Subvocalization
  4. Summarizing it
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Correct answer: B. Scanning the page

1. The reader searches for one specific piece of information. 2. That is scanning, which actively looks for information. 3. Reciting and summarizing deal with retelling, not searching. _Source: Wikipedia, Speed reading, Skimming and scanning_

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