Get the Gist

What are strategies to help with understanding your reading?

• Skimming

• Finding the GIST

• Rereading

• Prediction

• All of the above

What is a main idea?

• I really don't know this answer

• It is a light bulb

• It is a state next to New Hampshire

• The main point of a paragraph

Why should you only use 20 to 10 words or less when writing your GIST?

• because you are not rewriting the text

• because you only choose the most important information

• because it has to be totally in your own words

• because it takes too long to write more

What are the three steps for finding the Gist of a piece of text?

• Read the text and write a summary

• Read the text, find the important details

• Read the text and make a list of the 5Ws

• Read the text, annotate your list of the 5Ws, write a 10-20 word Gist

Read the following paragraph and select the GIST that goes along with it. All animals begin their life as babies. Most are helpless without the help of their parents. However, some are born with the instinct to survive and their parents are never around them once they are born.

• Baby animals have instincts

• All animals have babies, but they are different

• Babies need their parents

What is a reader's first ideas of what is happening in a text; the who or the what, the most important thing in 10 words or less?

• skim reading

• close reading

• getting the gist

• citing the source

What is skimming?

• Quickly reading over a text to get the general gist.

• Quickly reading over a text to find a specific piece of information which is focused upon

• Taking the time to understand the whole text in depth.

If you were reading a patient's case notes in order to gain a general overview of the patient, which reading strategy would be the most useful?

• Skimming

• Scanning

What does 'getting the gist' mean in reading comprehension?

• Understanding the main idea of the text

• Memorizing every detail

• Focusing on the author's background

• Analyzing the text's vocabulary

Which of the following is a strategy to find the gist of a text?

• Reading every word carefully

• Highlighting the main points

• Ignoring the introduction

• Focusing on the author's tone