Skimming and Scanning Teacher Resources

This site from the Chulalongkorn University contains general information on skimming and scanning when reading.

Learn to tackle even the most difficult of reading assignments through skimming and scanning. This website overviews what skimming and scanning are and provides several links with techniques on becoming an effective reader.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information for different types of reading. The differences among study reading, skimming, and scanning are provided so that students can be flexible readers.

This lesson plan focuses on scanning; it defines it, discusses its purpose, and explains things to look for. It offers both text and audio formats.

This lesson explains how to scan for key words and phrases in questions to help you understand what the question is asking. Then to scan the passage until you find the key words leading you to the answers you seek. It provides literary...