How to Teach Children with KWL Charts

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ann Kennedy on behalf of Expert Village. We'll be looking at how to teach a child to read using big books and read alouds. Beginning KWL charts. What is a KWL chart? Is it important. Yes, it's important KWL, K-question. What do you know what else but what does that mean? Say I have a book on the weather, a book on clouds, a book about prehistoric animals or dinosaurs, a book of photos. I'm looking at the actual books photographs things that are important not stories but actual non fiction books. So I may look at the cover of the book and ask my child. What do you know about clouds? They may answer something like their in the sky, well depending on their level and how old they are KWL charts can go all the way through high school. By the questions and what they studying, but the basics what do you know about clouds. Well they are in the sky you say what else do you know. Well they have different colors oh okay, so this is what you know what more do you want to know before we read this book. First what do they know, what more do they want to know. Well I want to know how they move? Why do they move? That is the question you have. After you read the book you ask them what did they learn. Were your questions answered? This is the beginning of non fiction and having them to have an ability to be so interested regardless if it's engineering math, if it's the mammals. What ever of the topic is that they want to know ask them what they know about it and what they want to know about it before you do the read, KWL. "