Practice - Skills to Develop
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Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions
What does skimming mean?
💡 Hint: Think about how you would quickly understand a news headline.
How do you find the meaning of a word in context?
💡 Hint: Context comes before and after the word.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What is skimming?
💡 Hint: Think about how you would quickly read a summary.
True or False: Scanning involves looking for general themes in a text.
💡 Hint: Focus on what scanning specifically targets.
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Challenge Problems
Push your limits with advanced challenges
Choose a paragraph from a book and skim it. Summarize the main idea in one sentence.
💡 Hint: Focus on the topic sentences.
Read a complex passage and identify five contextual clues to determine the meaning of a challenging word.
💡 Hint: What do the surrounding ideas suggest about the unknown word?
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