Get The Gist. Reading and Learning Strategy. After Reading

‘Get the Gist’ or ‘Sum it Up’ is an after reading summarising strategy that can be explictly taught to students. The ability to summarise has significant benefits for comprehending and ultimately retaining and recalling information. Explicitly teaching key reading comprehension and learning skills - making connections, self-questioning, visualising, inferring, determining importance, summarising, synthesising and self-monitoring - can help students become more purposeful, active readers, thinkers and learners.