Strategy: Anticipate Meaning

Method: KWL PLUS

KWL PLUS (Know – Want to Know – Learned) is a thinking-reading strategy that can be used with fiction or non-fiction. The PLUS has been added to the original KWL to encourage the use of categorization and summarization.

1. Before reading, readers consider and record what they know about a book, subject, or topic

2. What they need or would like to know is completed prior to or during reading.

3. What was learned is completed after reading.

4. Encourage students to categorize information in the W or L columns.

5. Consider using the categories and learned information to create a group summary.

Name

Title of Book

KWL PLUS

What We Know

What We Want to Know

What We Learned

PLUS Categories What We Want to Know What We Learned

1. _________________________________________ 5. ___________________________________
2. _________________________________________ 6. ___________________________________
3. __________________________________________ 7. ___________________________________
4. __________________________________________ 8. ___________________________________