Week 11 Assignment 2: KWL Strategy
KWL Charts Effective use of the KWL strategy in the classroom proves to work wonders to improve students' reading comprehension. KWL is an acronym for what you k now, w ant to know, and what you l earned about a topic. When reading an expository text, a KWL chart can be very helpful as a pre-reading strategy to activate students’ background knowledge. It scaffolds their learning as they ask questions and organize the information they are dealing with. During the first two steps, students reflect and brainstorm on what they already know, in addition to creating a list of questions they want to know about the topic. The last step can serve as an assessment of what the students have learned. Reading is an active process which involves interaction between the reader and the text. Making predictions, asking question, and drawing inferences are skills good readers use to expand ideas beyond the text and build comprehension. Therefore, KWL charts provide students with the opportunity ...