Recount Text Good teachers exploit reading text to the full

Wright 2011:1 noticed that the word gist is defined as the main oressential part of a matter, according toWebsters Dictionary.This activity forces students to squeezemeaning into a tight, precise summary. She said that the goal of GIST is to have students conveythe gist of what they have read bysummarizing the text in 20 words. Extraneous details must be discarded as aclearly defined focus is found. It is best torequire a sentence format. Gist was used in teaching reading because Gist was a good strategy for any level reader and the students develop skills in identifying mainideas and key concepts in the text. Get the Gist Strategy was a teaching reading technique in which the teacher made their students to summarize the content of the text based on the finding out main idea in the text. He encouraged his students to take delight in reading the written texts through applying the Get the Gist Strategy in the teaching reading activity in the class. By applying this teaching reading strategy in the class, the teacher could stimulate the students who were lazy to read to be students who were contented to read. As Siddiqui 2007:119 in cited Zainotalia 2012 argued that Get the Gist Strategy that is can improve students’ understanding and memory of what they have learned so they could get the most important point or the main idea of the passage. Get the Gist Strategy is an activity which helps the students and the teachers to identify key concept. It means that after identifying key concept and then finding main idea, automatically the students understand and comprehend the meaning of the content of the text. It relates to Klinger 2012: 33 which said that the purpose of the Get the Gist Strategy is to determine the most important ideas about what is read. It means that after the students comprehend about the text, they can make summary with their own words.

2.2.6. Get the Gist Strategy in Teaching Reading

Get the Gist Strategy was a strategy reading in which this strategy can improve the students in reading comprehension especially in summarizing the text. Get the Gist Strategy could help the students to find main idea and key concept of the text. Besides that this strategy could help the students and teacher learn the vocabulary as well. It according to Klinger, Vaughn, and Schumm 2010: 110 inZainotalia 2012 said that that Get the Gist Strategy can help students to understand the concept of main idea of the text. Cunningham 1982 suggested when using Gist it is best to conduct it first as whole class, then in small groups, and finally on an individual basis. It means that the implementation of Get the Gist Strategywasstarted when the teacher models the entire process for the class. Then the teacher divided in small group and asked the students in each group to read the passage silently or loud. Next, the teacher asked each student to get the main idea from the passage. After that, the students asked to summarize the content of the passage based on their own words with some word that have giventhat are 20 or less. When the students as a group become adept at producing gist statements presented as wholes, they have the students individually produce GIST statements for paragraphs presented as wholes. Wright 2011:2 explained how gist work is first having the students read the entire first paragraph. Answer the 5Ws and H Who What When Where Why How, then read the first three paragraphs and completethe G.I.S.T. After that answer the 5Ws and H, the students have to write a 20 word GIST summary. Finally, make sure you only use 20 words and m ake sure there is no “fluff” in the GIST. In this teaching reading, the researcher tried to improve students’ reading comprehension not only by summarizing the main idea but also answering the questions which are contain aspects of reading such as finding main idea especially, understanding specific information and understanding the implied meaning of the texts.

2.2.7. Procedures of Teaching Reading Comprehension through Get the Gist Strategy