Get the Gist Strategy - Reading
What: The Get the Gist strategy is an explicit strategy to help students who have difficulty determining the main idea of a text. The strategy involves having students work through specific set of steps.
Why: Successful readers use a variety of strategies to comprehend texts. Struggling readers, and particularly students with learning disabilities, have problems organizing the text to determine the main idea. Used paragraph by paragraph, the strategy encourages students to monitor their reading throughout a passage and to re-read if they are not constructing meaning.
With Whom: The Get the Gist strategy has been shown to be effective with students who have learning disabilities, and also with students who are ELLs. Bremer, Vaughn, Clapper and Kim (2002).
When: The Get the Gist strategy has also been implemented as part of a Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR). In this classroom routine students read a text as a group going through a routine in which they preview the text, monitor the reading for understanding (using the clunk fix up strategy), determine the main idea, and finally summarize what they are reading.
The strategy could also be taught explicitly early in the year in ELA as a whole class activity. Graphic organizers and routines should be repeated in content area courses.
Alternatively, a series of small group lessons have also been demonstrated to be effective. Consequently, instruction could take place either in a pull out SETSS setting or as a strategy for alternate teaching in an ICT classroom. An outline of the small group lessons is attached.
How/Procedure: Utilizing the SRSD teaching strategy students will be taught to be apply the following four steps before, during, and after reading.
1. Identify whether the text is primarily about a person, place, or thing.
2. Identify which person, place, or thing is being discussed.
3. Identify what is being said about the person, place, or thing that the paragraph is principally about (i.e., identify the basic argument, angle, spin, or perspective that the section adopts regarding its topic).
4. Restate the essence of the paragraph in a sentence containing ten or fewer words.
Risks: Implementing reading strategies that bring focus to students with struggling readers will typically be resisted by adolescent readers. Sensitivity should be demonstrated in the implementation of the strategy to not highlight the difference of students, and mixed ability groupings could be used with (CSR) so as not to bring undue attention to struggling readers.
Getting the Gist Steps Listed Below.
Why: Successful readers use a variety of strategies to comprehend texts. Struggling readers, and particularly students with learning disabilities, have problems organizing the text to determine the main idea. Used paragraph by paragraph, the strategy encourages students to monitor their reading throughout a passage and to re-read if they are not constructing meaning.
With Whom: The Get the Gist strategy has been shown to be effective with students who have learning disabilities, and also with students who are ELLs. Bremer, Vaughn, Clapper and Kim (2002).
When: The Get the Gist strategy has also been implemented as part of a Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR). In this classroom routine students read a text as a group going through a routine in which they preview the text, monitor the reading for understanding (using the clunk fix up strategy), determine the main idea, and finally summarize what they are reading.
The strategy could also be taught explicitly early in the year in ELA as a whole class activity. Graphic organizers and routines should be repeated in content area courses.
Alternatively, a series of small group lessons have also been demonstrated to be effective. Consequently, instruction could take place either in a pull out SETSS setting or as a strategy for alternate teaching in an ICT classroom. An outline of the small group lessons is attached.
How/Procedure: Utilizing the SRSD teaching strategy students will be taught to be apply the following four steps before, during, and after reading.
1. Identify whether the text is primarily about a person, place, or thing.
2. Identify which person, place, or thing is being discussed.
3. Identify what is being said about the person, place, or thing that the paragraph is principally about (i.e., identify the basic argument, angle, spin, or perspective that the section adopts regarding its topic).
4. Restate the essence of the paragraph in a sentence containing ten or fewer words.
Risks: Implementing reading strategies that bring focus to students with struggling readers will typically be resisted by adolescent readers. Sensitivity should be demonstrated in the implementation of the strategy to not highlight the difference of students, and mixed ability groupings could be used with (CSR) so as not to bring undue attention to struggling readers.
Getting the Gist Steps Listed Below.
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