STRATEGIES TO MOTIVATE STUDENTS TO READ

 

STRATEGIES TO MOTIVATE STUDENTS TO READ

KNOW/WANT TO KNOW/LEARNED

 

 

 

Class: 9th grade

Discipline: English language

Objectives:

-to encourage students to make connections to prior knowledge,

-to encourage students to think about new questions that they might want to investigate as a result of what they learned,

- to help students reflect and evaluate their learning experience.

Reading with purpose activity (Know/Want-to-know/Learned)

The teacher explains the importance of prior learning and how life experience and making connections to what we already know is a very important part of learning. 

The teacher should be sure that all students understand how to use this method and support them as they work.

Step 1. Introduce/remind the KWL strategy and explain how to use it with the topic.

Step 2. Draw a three-column chart on the board OR  each student draws  such a chart in  his/her exercise book. 

Students will write the things they already know K and the things they wish to know W before reading. After reading, they will complete the chart with things they have learned  L.

Step 3.  KNOW  

Introduce the topic and outline students’ prior knowledge of the topic brainstorming with the entire class or in small groups. Write the responses/ideas on the KWL chart.

OR 

Ask the students to draw a KWL chart in their exercise books and list everything they think they know about the topic of study in their charts.

Step 4.  WANT-to-LEARN

Encourage students to generate a list of what they want to learn, to raise questions they would like to be answered after reading the text. Students can preview the text and turn the heading, subheadings and any charts, pictures into questions. In this way they will set a purpose for reading. 

The teacher writes the questions on the KWL chart or every student writes his/her questions.

Now, students read the text and actively look for answers as well as verify their knowledge. 

Step 5.  LEARNED

After reading the text students discuss and take notes on the things they learned to complete the chart. Emphasize new information that relates to the "What I want to know" questions.

Discuss this new information with the class. Note any questions that were not answered. As a possible homework assignment might be to look for additional information to answer those questions.

Encourage students to write down the ideas that surprised them or were hard to understand. Ask the students to evaluate their learning experience.

 

K What I know	W What I want to know	L What I learned
Before reading access and write what you know about the topic.	Write everything you want to know about the topic.	After reading, reflect, note and review what you learned from your reading.

 

 

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