{"id":20598,"date":"2025-03-07T15:25:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecenglish.com\/en\/?p=20598"},"modified":"2025-05-07T14:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:44:49","slug":"what-is-reading-for-gist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecenglish.com\/en\/blog\/english\/what-is-reading-for-gist\/","title":{"rendered":"What is reading for gist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingenglish.org.uk\/knowledge-database\/gist\">Gist<\/a>&nbsp;is the overall meaning, the core idea, of a spoken or written discourse. When taking a quick look at a written text to establish its genre and&nbsp;the main&nbsp;message its writer means to get across, we&#8217;re reading for gist. This is also&nbsp;known as skimming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-c8cafffe3d308a62c9620488165df155\">A&nbsp;text can provide readers with lots of clues that help readers quickly establish what it&#8217;s about. These needn&#8217;t be just the words. A quick glance at the arrangement&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;densely written columns, for example&nbsp;\u2013 can tell us we&#8217;re looking at a newspaper article, even when it&#8217;s been reproduced in an exam paper. We also look for visuals or any other discrete&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingenglish.org.uk\/knowledge-database\/discourse\">discourse<\/a>&nbsp;features to help us make informed predictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-f9695af37ace66effee2fd01e9b32246\">Reading for gist is all about&nbsp;getting the&nbsp;ideas of the text by skimming it rapidly&nbsp;and ignoring the grammatical words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-55afc99a2f6a4f966da403b1a65db31f\">Another reading skill often mentioned alongside&nbsp;skimming is&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingenglish.org.uk\/knowledge-database\/scanning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scanning<\/a>. Scanning is our quest for more specific information, such as&nbsp;numbers, names or other easily identifiable data within a text. We do this when,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scottthornbury.wordpress.com\/tag\/reading-for-gist\/\">for example<\/a>, we consult&nbsp;a bus timetable for a specific time or destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-e56459fb850cd15d1025332e2e4771c3\">Are you thinking about studying English in Canada? Meet <a href=\"https:\/\/ecenglish.com\/en\/schools\/canada\/learn-english-in-vancouver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EC English Language School in Vancouver<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gist Gist&nbsp;is the overall meaning, the core idea, of a spoken or written discourse. 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