Age Group:
Middle School
High School

How do you use this reading approach?
The Focused Skim is a blend between sight-reading and non-linear skimming and is appropriate only when your child is looking for a specific theme or detail. In this respect it is great when preparing for a text or researching for an essay. To use this approach, have your child spend some time clarifying what he is looking for -- he needs to be as specific as possible. Then have him brainstorm some key words associated with what he's looking for. With those key words in mind, he approaches the text like he's sight-reading, paying attention only to words that resemble his key words. When he finds them, he reads the paragraph with the key words as well as the paragraphs right before and right after.

The above information was written by Jonathan Mooney.