During this training, you will be using a variety of graphic organizers and strategies. KWL is a tool that students can use to help them recognize their prior knowledge. To use KWL, first identify a topic that will be discussed. An example may be the Vietnam War. Have students first identify what they know about that topic and list their ideas in the What I Know column. Next have students identify different things they would like to know about the topic in What I Want to Know column. After the lesson and discussion, students should synthesize what they have learned by completing the What I Have Learned column. This strategy helps student to use their current knowledge to build connections with new material.

Click here to print a KWL Chart about Reading and the Adult Learner. You will put your completed KWL chart in your Resource folder with other assignments to give to your inservice facilitator. (You might want to print an extra blank one for your teaching files.)

Make some notes in the first column, What I Know, and in the second column, What I Want to Know. Later in the training, you will return to the What I Learned column.

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