What are the main ideas of the text?
If you, after predicting, decide that this text is useful in relation to your reading goal, you can move on to the next step: skimming. Just like a farmer scoops the rich cream off the milk, here you try to extract (skim) the main ideas from the text without reading the text from start to finish (linearly). With skimming you look more in-depth at the text than during predicting.
You can use skimming if you are short on time, when you just need to understand the general idea and not the details, or to get a little deeper understanding of the global text after predicting so that you can better understand the details of the text later.
As you skim, keep in mind the 2-3 terms you have come up with for your reading goal.
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Marking
If you come across a part of a text with valuable information, you can mark them to read "for real" later. Do not linger too long in the skimming phase. A number of marking ideas that you can apply on paper or, for example, in a PDF (learn the shortcuts!):