Give Your K-W-L Charts a Double-Take
Best practices encompass the old, the new, and the tried-and-true. One of the tried-and-true best practice for scaffolding when introducing new content, is to utilize a K-W-L graphic organizer.
K: What do you <
span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>know?
W: What do you want to know?
L: What have you learned?
K-W-L charts don’t have to be boring. Next time, try a visually interesting display that you’d be happy to refer to in lessons again and again.
How about a giant segmented ant to organize information about insects?
- Now THAT’S a thorax!
Or perhaps a cute sleeping bear to wonder about what animals do in winter?
I made it waaaaay bigger than I had planned to, but I like the effect anyway.
What are some of the ways that you’ve turned tried-and-true practices on their heads?
