I am in the process of introducing the AVID literacy strategies to my middle school students. We have used GIST (Generating Interactions between Schemata and Text)
What is it?
Gist is a comprehension strategy that is used both during reading and after reading. It is one approach to summarizing a text. When using GIST, students create summaries that are 20 words or less for increasingly large amounts of text.
The end product is a 20 word summary that is tight and precise.
How does it work?
1. Define what the "gist" of something is.
2. Read the first paragraph/section of the assigned reading. The size of the section will depend upon the
grade level and size of the complete text.
3. Write a 20 word summary that describes the main idea in that section.
4. Read the second paragraph/section of the assigned reading.
5. Write a 20 word summary that combines the material in the first gist statement and the new material.
6. Continue this procedure until a 20 word summary is created for the entire reading.
A GIST will improve reading comprehension as well as summary writing. When using GIST, students must delete trivial information, select key ideas, and generalize in their own words, which are three major strategies necessary for comprehension and retention.
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