Scanning and skimming in non-fiction texts

Today we are going to work on non-fiction reading.

First of all, on Friday we spoke about the two methods of scanning and skimming to read larger amounts of text quickly.

Here is a site to see if you have understood and practise these skills.

Do all four tasks and write a comment to me about them.

Now read the following pdf file about Reading skills 

Use the method stated (scanning and skimming) to find brief information about the following:

What is "reciprocal teaching" and when can it be used?

What is important to remember when writing quick summaries?

Compare "Magnet summaries" and "gist summaries". What differences are there between them?

Now two brief articles on non-fiction subjects but at a very elementary level. Read and do the relevant exercise

Here is the first text 
about the relationship between science and society.

The second text is about Florida and introduces some very simple economic terms. 
Paraphrase the final paragraph of the article. 

The final text is a longer text about the effects of listening to music when reading
Summarize these effects in a few sentences.