Practice - Read the Passage Thoroughly (First Read)
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Practice Questions
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What is skimming?
💡 Hint: Think about how you quickly glance at a summary.
Name one benefit of active reading.
💡 Hint: Consider why highlighting might help you.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the purpose of skimming?
💡 Hint: What does 'quickly' imply you are doing?
Active reading involves passive engagement with the text.
💡 Hint: Are you just reading if you are taking notes?
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Challenge Problems
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You have a text with various subsections. How would you approach skimming it to write a summary?
💡 Hint: What parts of a text signal important information?
You need to answer a multiple-choice question about a text but lost the page. How would you use scanning to quickly find the relevant detail?
💡 Hint: Which words from the question are likely in the passage?
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