Enhancing Reading Comprehension with 'Get the Gist' Strategy
Explore the 'Get the Gist' strategy through engaging slides for English/Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science. Learn how this strategy helps in understanding and remembering important information by focusing on main ideas. Teachers can customize these slides to suit their instruction needs.
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How to Use These Slides These slides are offered to teachers as a way to introduce students to the strategies: Get the Gist strategy (slides 2 11) Gist to Summary (slides 12 17) Teachers: Feel free to add, edit, or rearrange these slides! They are offered as a starting point for your instruction. We will be asking your feedback on the use of these slides at the end of the fall semester so we can improve them for other teachers.
How to Get the Gist in English/Language Arts Teacher Name
How to Get the Gist in Social Studies Teacher Name
How to Get the Gist in Science Teacher Name
Sometimes when we read, we Read too quickly Don t read carefully enough Just try to make it to the end of the text! This causes us to not remember what we read and not learn anything while we are reading.
A New Reading Strategy Get the Gist A gist is a main idea. Get the Gist will help us write a main idea statement of one section of text at a time.
How Get the Gist Can Help You Get the Gist helps you: Think about what you re reading. Focus on important information rather than minor details. Remember what you read.
For EACH SECTION of text you read Steps Step 1: Identify the most important who or what. GET THE GIST (During Reading) Step 2: Identify the most important information about the who or what. Step 3: Write a gist statement that combines the information from steps 1 and 2.
The Get the Gist strategy will help us write main idea statements about what we read so we understand and remember the important information! Get the Gist Log Characteristics of Solar Systems Section 1: sdoifjsdofsdfasdnfknsdlfknsdlknfdsfnsdf nsldkfnlaskdnflsakdnflksadnflk. Gist (main idea) of Section 1 Section 2: sdoifjsdofsdfasdnfknsdlfknsdlknfdsfnsdf nsldkfnlaskdnflsakdnflksadnflk. Gist (main idea) of Section 2 Section 3: sdoifjsdofsdfasdnfknsdlfknsdlknfdsfnsdf nsldkfnlaskdnflsakdnflksadnflk. Gist (main idea) of Section 3
Modeling: Notes for teacher This is where you will start modeling how to use the strategy with either the passage and prepared gist statements in your strategy guide OR another text of your choice. Say to students: : Now that I ve described the Get the Gist strategy to you, I will show you how to use it. Look at your passage, called xxx. I will read the text aloud and stop at the places where it says I should write a gist statement, which is the main idea. I ll use the three steps in the Get the Gist strategy to help me. Follow along and watch how I do this.
From Gist to Summary in English/Language Arts Teacher Name
From Gist to Summary in Social Studies Teacher Name
From Gist to Summary in Science Teacher Name
We can combine our gists to write a brief summary of the ENTIRE text. Get the Gist Log Giant Gist Gist (main idea) of Section 1 Brief summary of the entire text that uses the gist statements we ve already written! (One paragraph, 3-4 sentences) Gist (main idea) of Section 2 Gist (main idea) of Section 3
Six Steps to Summarization STEPS Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 DESCRIPTION REREAD the main ideas for each paragraph in the passage. UNDERLINE the most important main ideas. COMBINE main idea statements that could go together. NUMBER the ideas in a logical order. WRITE your brief summary in one paragraph (about 3 4 sentences) EDIT your summary to correct punctuation and grammar.
Modeling: Notes for teacher This is where you will start modeling how to write a summary with either the passage and prepared gist statements in your strategy guide OR another text of your choice. Say to students: : Now that I ve described the summarization strategy to you, I will show you how to use it. Look at the gist statements from the passage xxx. I ll use the six steps to help me. Follow along and watch how I do this.
