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K-W-L Chart

 

K-W-L Chart

About the Strategy

K-W-L is a strategy of reading expository text that helps children use what they know to generate interest in a selection. K-W-L also helps children set purposes for reading by encouraging them to express their curiosity for the topic they will be reading about. K-W-L encourages group members to share and discuss what they know, what they want to know, and what they learn about a topic.

Topic:

What We

Know

 

What We Want

to Know

What We Learned

 

Step 1

Help children brainstorm what they know or think they know about the topic

Step 2

List questions children hope to have answered as they read

Step 3

List what children learned after they've read the selection.


 

Skills and Strategies: activate prior knowledge, generate questions, set purpose, summarize facts

 

Idea Exchange

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Keep in Mind

  • Work with children to generate a list of what they know and what questions they have about a topic.

  • As children develop control over reading strategies, they can complete the K-W-L Chart independently, with a partner, or with a group

All Together Now

Create ongoing classroom K-W-L Charts as you investigate topics in other curriculum areas, such as science or social studies. Invite children to add questions and newly acquired information throughout the investigation. You may consider binding the K-W-L Charts by subject for children to use as a reference. (cross-curricular connection)

Instructional Notes 9 Re-created by permission from Scott, Foresman and Company






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Ellison Orr at Desk: Most of Orr's collections reside at effigy Mounds National Monument

Did You Know?
An important figure in the documentation of Iowa's effigy mounds was Ellison Orr. Born in 1857, Orr worked other jobs while pursuing research in archeology. After retiring at the age of 73, Orr began a career as an archeologist spending the next 20 years conducting surveys and excavations.
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