Surveying (or previewing) provides students with a structured system for previewing text before reading. Surveying activates students schema for the information to be read and provides a process easy for students to follow. Using surveying, students get a mountain-top view of the text using the following process: read and interpret the title, read the introduction paragraph to learn what this text is about, read all subheadings to learn the main parts of the text, study and interpret all pictur