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Reading Strategy: Scanning

Introduction to scanning

Scanning is a strategy you use when you want to find a particular answer. Very often, you know what you are looking for and you move your eyes quickly over a reading to find specific words or phrases that provide you the particular answer.

Techniques of scanning

You can look for the writer’s use of organizers in a text, such as numbers, steps, letters, highlighted words or words in italics, etc. 

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