KWL Chart
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María Martínez BortTEACHER’S NOTES
WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S KWL Chart
Activity Type Introduction
Reading Activity: In this reading skills activity, students become familiar with
brainstorming, listing, KWL, an acronym for Know, Want-to-know, and Learned. It is an
table completion effective way to help students read with purpose. KWL is easy to
use, and its function is to foster improvement in students' ability
to read efficiently and to retain what they have learned as a result.
Focus
The basic overall purpose of this worksheet is for students'
Reading for a purpose
responses and questions to guide and direct their reading.
Aim Procedure
To use the KWL reading Give each student a copy of the worksheet.
strategy in order to
improve your reading Students begin by brainstorming everything they know about the
efficiency. topic in the K column by responding to the 'What I Know' prompt.
Students can do this individually or in small groups.
Preparation Next, students list questions on what they want to know about
the topic in the W column by responding to the 'What I Want to
Make one copy of the Know' prompt.
worksheet for each
student. If the students are finding this part difficult due to their lack of
knowledge on the topic, write question words on the board as
prompts to help them, e.g. Who? What? Where? When? Why?
Level How?
Intermediate (B1)
In the last step, students complete the L column by responding
to the 'What I learned' prompt and review the K and W columns.
Time
As students record what they have learned, they review the K
Flexible column to identify any misconceptions about the topic they might
have held before reading.
The students also review the questions in the W column, checking
off any questions that they can now answer. The students also
add new questions to spur further reading.
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READING SKILLS
WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S KWL Chart
This KWL chart can be used to help guide your reading when researching information for class
assignments.
Instructions: Begin by brainstorming everything you know about the topic in the K column.
Then, list questions about what you want to know about the topic in the W column. During or
after reading, complete the L column, reviewing the information in the K column and checking
off any questions that you can now answer, which is the new information you have learned.