KWL Plus
"Know, Want to Know, Learned" Strategy (This strategy is related to inquiry charts.)
This strategy can be used as an introduction to a single lesson or an entire unit. KWL Plus charts activate prior knowledge, provide a focus for learning, help categorize information, map information, and summarize what has been learned.
Steps:
1. Teacher presents a topic to brainstorm.
2. Through discussion, students generate ideas about the topic and record them as a group.
3. Students sort the ideas into categories generated by the teacher and students. (Students could also use the Think-Pair-Share strategy to brainstorm.)
4. Through discussion, the teacher provokes questions or disagreements and highlights gaps in knowledge.
5. Students list questions of their own that they want answered. Questions can be added as the lesson/unit proceeds.
6. As the lesson/unit proceeds, students record what they have learned in the "L" column.
7. Students monitor which questions still need answered.
8. At the ends of the process, students build a mind map of the information they have gathered.
9. Lastly, student write a summary of the information they have learned.
Possible Curricular Outcomes:GLO 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
1.2 Clarify and Extend
1.2.3 Structure and restructure ideas and information in personally meaningful ways to clarify and extend understanding.
1.2.4 Reconsider initial understanding in light of new information, and ask clarifying questions; listen to diverse opinions and recognize ambiguity.
GLO 3: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information.
3.1 Plan and Focus
3.1.1 Determine personal knowledge of a topic to generate possible areas of inquiry or research.
3.1.2 Formulate relevant main and subordinate questions on a topic to establish a purpose for gathering information.
3.1.3 Contribute ideas knowledge, and strategies to help identify group information needs and sources.
3.2.1 Identify Personal and Peer Knowledge
3.2.1 Access, record, and appraise personal and peer knowledge and understanding of a topic to establish an information base for inquiry or research.
This strategy can be used as an introduction to a single lesson or an entire unit. KWL Plus charts activate prior knowledge, provide a focus for learning, help categorize information, map information, and summarize what has been learned.
Steps:
1. Teacher presents a topic to brainstorm.
2. Through discussion, students generate ideas about the topic and record them as a group.
3. Students sort the ideas into categories generated by the teacher and students. (Students could also use the Think-Pair-Share strategy to brainstorm.)
4. Through discussion, the teacher provokes questions or disagreements and highlights gaps in knowledge.
5. Students list questions of their own that they want answered. Questions can be added as the lesson/unit proceeds.
6. As the lesson/unit proceeds, students record what they have learned in the "L" column.
7. Students monitor which questions still need answered.
8. At the ends of the process, students build a mind map of the information they have gathered.
9. Lastly, student write a summary of the information they have learned.
Possible Curricular Outcomes:GLO 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
1.2 Clarify and Extend
1.2.3 Structure and restructure ideas and information in personally meaningful ways to clarify and extend understanding.
1.2.4 Reconsider initial understanding in light of new information, and ask clarifying questions; listen to diverse opinions and recognize ambiguity.
GLO 3: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information.
3.1 Plan and Focus
3.1.1 Determine personal knowledge of a topic to generate possible areas of inquiry or research.
3.1.2 Formulate relevant main and subordinate questions on a topic to establish a purpose for gathering information.
3.1.3 Contribute ideas knowledge, and strategies to help identify group information needs and sources.
3.2.1 Identify Personal and Peer Knowledge
3.2.1 Access, record, and appraise personal and peer knowledge and understanding of a topic to establish an information base for inquiry or research.
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