Two important reading strategies that can be applied in your classroom and in tests are skimming and scanning . They are different and each one is used for different purposes, and they are not meant to be used all the time. People who know how to skim and scan are flexible readers. Check the next video: What is Skimming? Skimming is to read more in less time. You skim to look only for the general or main ideas, but your overall understanding is reduced because you don’t read everything. You read only what is important to your purpose. Skimming takes place while reading and allows you to look for details in addition to the main ideas. How to skim? You can skim by reading the first few paragraphs in detail, you will get a good idea of what information will be discussed. Once you know where the reading is headed, you can begin to read only the first sentence of each paragraph. Also called topic sentences, they give you the main idea of the paragraph. If you...