We've had great success in my district with the GIST strategy......I actually think Patricia Cunningham's husband created this for older students. The idea was to ask
WHO is this most about and WHAT about them is most important to know in this section of the reading. He allowed them to do it in about 20 words per statement for older kids. We taught younger kids to do it in 10 words. We called the GIST statement the main idea statement. To create a summary we would divide a short piece into three sections and create 3 GIST statements. A beginning, middle, and end and call it a summary. I know this seems contrived but it works nicely as you are learning this. For young kids we used the tune of Adam's family We would sing Give me the Gist in (snap) 10 (snap) Give me the Gist in (snap) 10 (snap) Give me the Gist Give me the Gist Give me the Gist in (snap) 10 (snap) When I first introduce it we do it as a competition. We would read a section together and then partners would be given several minutes to create a GIST and then we would share them and choose the one that did the best job of stating the most important WHO and the most important WHAT about that who. It takes many, many experiences of modeling this and revising the GIST statement for students to begin to do it independently. Gina _________________________________________________________________ Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008 _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
