🔎 Extraction (reading) 🔍

Benefits➕:
⌛️ Learn time-saving techniques for skimming long pieces of writing ;
🔍 Find critical information quickly using scanning techniques .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Skim the article within the allotted time. Choose the correct answer in the skimming review. ➡️ Next, find and choose the passage in the article that answers the question.

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SKIMMING

ANIMAL DREAMS

SLEEP HABITS IN THE WILD

Almost all animals sleep, but how and how much they sleep varies from species to species. The little brown bat is one of the most prolific sleepers; it sleeps for around 20 hours per day. By contrast, giraffes sleep only 30 minutes per day in short bursts of five minutes each. And in general, herbivores sleep less than carnivores because they have to remain alert for predators.

Aquatic animals that breathe air experience difficulties sleeping because they have to keep swimming or they'll sink. Walruses respond to this with pharyngeal pouches, which are air pockets they can inflate to float while sleeping. Often, they'll also hook their tusks on ice foes to anchor themselves. Dolphins and whales solve this problem with hemispheric slow-wave sleep. This is the ability to sleep with only half of the brain, keeping the other half awake to drive motor functions.

Sleep studies are difficult because animals sleep more in captivity than in the wild. Sloths have a reputation for sleepiness, and indeed, they sleep around 14 hours per day in captivity. But wild sloths are much livelier, sleeping only around 9 hours per day.

Image credit: Joanna Turner/Unsplash

SCAN THE ARTICLE
ONE of THREE

❓ Why do air-breathing aquatic animals have difficulty sleeping?

✅ Answer: 2nd paragraph, first sentence: Aquatic animals that breathe air experience difficulties sleeping because they have to keep swimming or they'll sink.

TIP: Keep the information you're looking for in mind as you scan.

SCANNING

ANIMAL DREAMS

SLEEP HABITS IN THE WILD

Almost all animals sleep, but how and how much they sleep varies from species to species. The little brown bat is one of the most prolific sleepers; it sleeps for around 20 hours per day. By contrast, giraffes sleep only 30 minutes per day in short bursts of five minutes each. And in general, herbivores sleep less than carnivores because they have to remain alert for predators.

Aquatic animals that breathe air experience difficulties sleeping because they have to keep swimming or they'll sink. Walruses respond to this with pharyngeal pouches, which are air pockets they can inflate to float while sleeping. Often, they'll also hook their tusks on ice foes to anchor themselves. Dolphins and whales solve this problem with hemispheric slow-wave sleep. This is the ability to sleep with only half of the brain, keeping the other half awake to drive motor functions.

Sleep studies are difficult because animals sleep more in captivity than in the wild. Sloths have a reputation for sleepiness, and indeed, they sleep around 14 hours per day in captivity. But wild sloths are much livelier, sleeping only around 9 hours per day.

SCAN THE ARTICLE
TWO of THREE

❓ How do walruses anchor themselves while sleeping?

✅ Answer: 2nd paragraph, first sentence: Often, they'll also hook their tusks on ice foes to anchor themselves.

TIP: Keep the information you're looking for in mind as you scan.

SCAN THE ARTICLE
THREE of THREE

❓ How much do sloths sleep in captivity?

✅ Answer: 2nd paragraph, first sentence: ..., they sleep around 14 hours per day in captivity.

TIP: Keep the information you're looking for in mind as you scan.

👁‍🗨 Visualization (reading) 👁‍🗨

Benefits➕:
📓 Master new words and expand your vocabulary ;
🌄 Create visual memory cues to remember words .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Choose the picture that best represents the word.

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