Week 11 Assignment 2: KWL Strategy

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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 know, want to know, and what you learned 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 to develop their comprehension skills through an interactive learning experience.

Read this article to learn more about the effect of using the KWL strategy.
View this lesson plan to see how to appropriately use KWL in the classroom.




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  1. Gitty Feldman NYITApril 17, 2018 at 8:01 PM

    Dina, I like the strategy you chose. As a teacher I very often use KWL charts to develop my students comprehension.

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