Strategy Worksheet

Strategy #11
Strategy Name:

GIST (Generating Interactions Between Schemata and Texts)


Brief Description (in your own words):

This strategy helps students learn to write organized and concise summaries of their
reading. This will assist readers and writers as they organize notes for class discussion,
research, essay writing and exam studying.


How you plan to use this strategy in your Practicum, Internship, Student Teaching, or
in your own classroom:

I would use this strategy in my internship as a homework assignment, to predict the
reading to be done as whole class the following day.


GIST


Read the first sentence and summarize contents in fifteen words or less.





Read second sentence and summarize first two sentences in fifteen words or less.



Continue until first paragraph is read and then summarize the entire paragraph in fifteen
words or less.