GIST
GIST (Generating Interactions between Schemata and Texts) is a literacy strategy resource from the National FFA Organization that helps students summarize their reading in a concise way. Students identify the most important words in a text and use them to write a summary in 20 words or less, capturing the “gist” of the reading. The resource includes a student worksheet structured for a three-paragraph text and can be adapted for videos, websites, or lectures.
At a glance
- Materials
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- GIST worksheet
- Assigned text (paragraph, article, or other reading)
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Aligned Standards
Common Core – Language
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Common Core – Literacy in Science & Technical Subjects: Writing
- WHST.9.10.4Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
- WHST.9.10.5Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
Common Core – Reading: Informational Text
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.2Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Common Core – Science & Technical Subjects
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.2Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; trace the text's explanation or depiction of a complex process, phenomenon, or concept; provide an accurate summary of the text.
Common Core – Writing
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.4Produce clear and coherent writing the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.