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Learn how to identify essential and non-essential words in a text. Preview, skim, and scan for information effectively. Deal with new words by determining their importance for comprehension. Examples and tips included.
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Reading Strategies Identifying Essential and Non-essential words, previewing, skimming, and scanning for information
Dealing with new words • We don’t need to know all the words to understand a text. • When we encounter a word we don’t know we need to determine if the word is essential or non-essential. • There are words that are essential (we need to know) and words that are non-essential (we don’t need to know in order to understand the text).
Examples of essential words • Gasoline prices rose 5.6 percent last month. • The volatile food and energy sectors showed a modest rise in April. • While some economists believe we are in recession, others say that we may be able to avoid a full-blown downturn.
This is one of the largest ebbits in the country but not one of the largest farms in the world. • It is especially important to mebegle. • Scientists make decisions based on lazzapit-evidence from research. • We need to think about the tubblits-for example, the biological and ecological consequences.