Practice - Strategies for Active Reading
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Practice Questions
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What does skimming mean?
💡 Hint: Think about how you gather headlines from a news article.
Define what supporting details are.
💡 Hint: What kind of information helps explain a central point?
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the purpose of skimming?
💡 Hint: Think about how you preview a book.
True or False: Scanning is used to quickly gather general ideas from a text.
💡 Hint: Focus on the purpose of the method used.
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Challenge Problems
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You read a passage about climate change and notice the main idea is its impact on wildlife. List three supporting details that illustrate this point.
💡 Hint: Think about statistics or facts given in the passage that align with this idea.
Analyze this sentence: 'The tired teacher, shuffling papers and yawning, realized her students were restless.' What inference can be drawn from this?
💡 Hint: Consider the words describing the teacher and the actions of the students.
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