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Explain the purpose of scanning as a reading strategy?
The purpose of scanning is to look for specific pieces of information in a book or text, with the intention of locating specific facts such as a word in a dictionary, a phone number, an address, a time schedule, a price, or particular information from a text.
What is the similarity between scanning and skimming?
Both scanning and skimming are strategies for quickly obtaining specific information from a text.
Provide an example of when scanning would be particularly useful?
Scanning would be particularly useful when searching for a phone number or an address, checking the time schedule, checking the price of an item, or finding specific information from a text.
Test your knowledge about the scanning technique, a high-level strategy for locating specific information in a text or book, such as finding a word in a dictionary or checking the price of an item. This quiz will assess your understanding of this efficient searching method.
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