Social Studies Strategies (GIST)

Social Studies Strategies 

2. GIST 
GIST is generating interaction between schemata and text, this is a strategy for supporting comprehension of informational text. This is very helpful when the students have to read long text and need to get to the gist of it. 

• The teacher will begin with identifying appropriate text that will work for finding the GIST.
• The teacher will then group the students.
• The teacher will demonstrate finding the point of a certain section.
• The teacher will discuss what a summary sentence is and how to write one.
• The teacher have the students read and summarize within their groups. 
• Then the class and teacher will compare summary sentences. 
• The teacher will assess and document students participation. 

Video Link of a entire lesson and Getting the GIST: 

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJicIqI3Esg

Worksheets: