KWL+chart

**By: ** **Irma V. Enriquez **
 * A SDAIE Strategy **
 * Tapping into Prior Knowledge, by using the KWL chart: **

=**What is it? **=

The KWL chart is a Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE) strategy developed for ESL students to have the opportunity of adjusting to the new learning and relate it to their own life experiences. The KWL chart is also an instructional reading strategy that is used to guide students through a text. The KWL charts assist teachers in activating students ‘prior knowledge of a subject or topic and encourage inquisition, active reading, and research

The chart is divided into 3 sections. In the K column the students write everything they know about the topic. Then in the W column the students write questions on what they want to know about the topic. In the L column the students write the information on what they learned.

=**__Visualizing:__** =


 * Example: **



=**How to use it: **=


 * **Choose a text. ** This strategy works best with expository texts.
 * **Create a KWL chart. **The teacher should create a chart on the blackboard or on an overhead transparency. In addition, the students should have their own chart on which to record information. (Below is an example of a KWL chart.)
 * **Ask students to brainstorm words, terms, or phrases they associate with a topic. ** The teacher and students record these associations in the //K// column of their charts. This is done until students run out of ideas. Engage students in a discussion about what they wrote in the //K// column.
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ask students to brainstorm words, terms, or phrases they associate with a topic. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> The teacher and students record these associations in the //K// column of their charts. This is done until students run out of ideas. Engage students in a discussion about what they wrote in the //K// column.


 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ask students to brainstorm words, terms, or phrases they associate with a topic. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> The teacher and students record these associations in the //K// column of their charts. This is done until students run out of ideas. Engage students in a discussion about what they wrote in the //K// column.


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Have students read the text and fill out the L column of their charts. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Students should look for the answers to the questions in their W column while they are reading. Students can fill out their L columns either during or after reading.


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Discuss the information that students recorded in the L column. **


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Encourage students to research any questions in the W column that were not ****<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> answered by the text. **

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Purpose for using the KWL chart: **
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 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 13px;">It helps students to monitor their comprehension.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 13px;">It provides an opportunity for students to expand ideas beyond the text.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">It also helps them make connections by using the three ways to connect information when we are reading which are:
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Text-to-Self (T-S) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> connections made between the text and the reader's personal experience.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Text-to-Text (T-T) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> connections made between a texts being read to a text that was previously read.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Text-to-World (T-W) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> refers to connections made between a text being read and something that occurs in the world.