ESOL STRATEGIES FOR SCIENCE!!! Strategy 11

Strategy 11: KWL and Data Charts

Next Generation Sunshine State Standards

SC.3.L.14.1

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Describe structures in plants and their roles in food production, support, water and nutrient transport, and reproduction. 

Common Core Standards

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.4a 

Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

ESOL Standards

6.  Apply current and effective ESOL teaching methodologies in planning and delivering instruction to LEP/ELL students.

STEP BY STEP

1. Choose a Topic to use in introducing basic research skills
2. Prepare a blank KWL plus chart
3. Introduce the KWL chart in a group lesson
4. Provide students with book and resources to read about the topic
5. Demonstrate how to add new information to the L column of the KWL chart and make corrections
6. Introduce the data chart as a way to organize the information they are gathering
7. Demonstrate how to use the data chart to organize and write a report on the topic

A great way to apply this to science, is to have students choose a book about their favorite animal. The student will write about what they know in the K column, what they want to know in the W column, and what they learned from the book in the L Column.  

For their data chart, they can ask and answer questions like, "How does it look?", "What does it eat?",  "Where does it live?," and "What are its natural enemies?".    

Link to KWL Chart: http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/kwl.pdf

Data Chart:

Group Members_______________________________________________________________________ Topic ________________________________________________________________________________
Questions:	How does it look?	What does it eat?	Where does it live?	What are its natural enemies?	Other important information?
Sources and Readers
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