KWL Chart
Know / Want to know / Learned — the three-column chart that bookends a reading unit. Free PDF.
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A chart with a before and an after
The KWL chart is unusual among organizers because it is filled in twice. Before the unit, students write what they already Know and what they Want to find out — which surfaces prior knowledge and, more usefully, gives them a question they actually care about. After the unit, the Learned column is where the answer lands.
That gap between the W and the L is the whole point: students can see that their own question got answered, which is a different feeling from being told a fact. Use it for science units, social studies topics, or any non-fiction read — and print two copies if you want students to compare their before-and-after thinking.
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