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I often use KWL charts when introducing a new non-fiction text to start building background knowledge for all the students in the classroom, especially since so many of my students are English Language Learners or do not have the exposure to different topics and information in their daily lives from family, books or television. This gives us not only a starting point for the topic, but it also gives the students an opportunity to ask questions about the topic and what they should pay attention to while we are reading the text. After we have completed the text, we discuss what was learned and chart that information as well as a whole group. This strategy activates prior knowledge, gets students ready for the new reading task, and provides them with a chance to answer the questions from the "what I wonder" section as well as discuss anything new that they learned from the text.
Additional information about KWL charts can be located at http://www.nea.org/tools/k-w-l-know-want-to-know-learned.html
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