List student responses on the board under K . When disagreements and questions emerge, note them and write the concerns under the W as a possible question to answer when students begin reading. Have students write what they feel they know on their individual charts. STEP 3 Have students decide what questions they have about the topic and write it on their charts. Write some of the student questions on the board.
Students are to read the text and jot down information they are learning in the third column L .
Also, encourage students to write new questions they think of as they are reading in the W column . STEP 5 After students have completed reading the text, discuss what students learned in their reading and write some of the student responses in the third column on the board. If some of the questions were not answered in the text, encourage students to look for the answers in other text. Students who do not seem to have sufficient background knowledge about a topic may need to work on a more concrete level. Preview critical vocabulary terms from the text.