GROUP MEMBERS:

2.Muhammad Salehuddin bin Ahmad

3.Fatul Muin bin Azizan
4.Nur Hazizi bin Amir Hamzah
5.Mohd Azrul Azuan bin Mohd Asri
6.Muhammad Rafiq bin Razali

LECTURER’S NAME:
Miss Lizarose bt Abdullah
 SKIMMING
• Skimming - reading quickly to find main
ideas.
• Purpose -
– To get the overview and raise questions
– Skim for main idea
– Find out what happen next.
• What you skim depends on the
importance of the passage and your
familiarity with the subject.
• Types of materials – study material,
• Based on your knowledge of the
needs of your course. Is the
passage important to
understanding?
• Will the information in the
passage help you achieve a
specific purpose?
• The Newspaper (quickly to get the
general news of the day)
• Magazines (quickly to discover which
articles you would like to read in
more detail)
• Business and Travel Brochures
(quickly to get informed)
1. As fast as possible, read the first
few sentences (on paragraph). This
tell you about the passage’s content.
You can often figure out the setting
and the tone from the first
sentences.
2. Start leaving out materials
On the third or fourth sentence, let
your eyes hit only key words and
phrases. Key words usually verbs and
nouns.
3. Read all of the last few sentences
(or paragraphs).

4. Try to identify the main idea and a

few facts.
Because of its nature, skimming does
not provide you with detailed
information. Skimming gives you a
general notation of content rather
than specific information.
1) Vertical Skimming Method
- The reader may glide his eyes over
the irrelevant content until he finds
what he is looking for
(exclusive
; skimming)
- He may survey material,
identifying
(inclusive main ideas and inferring
less important details
skimming)
;
- He may use non-directed skimming
move his eyes down the page in a
2) The Square Span Method & The
Narrow Column Method
- Involve moving the eye over a small
span – either the eye focuses on the
centre of a page or all the words are
placed in a narrow columns.
1) The person must be a flexible reader.
2) He must able to organized a series of
data.
3) He must able to identify words rapidly,
and relate them to each other.
4) He must develop attention and
concentration.
5) He must be relaxed.
6) He must develop the perceptual skill.
The person must look back and forth
and down the page.
 CONCLUSION
Let us not forget:
• Skimming is reading at the fastest
speed which a person can
accomplish.
• It is used when a reader wishes to
cover material in a hurry.
• It is used when high comprehension
is not required.
• It can be 4 to 6 minutes faster than
your average reading speed.