Knowledge Rating Guide-By using KWL

I used this strategy while teaching about the solar system to the students. I started with a KWL. I wanted to know what the students knew before the lesson took place, What they wanted to know and at the end what they learned about the solart system. By doing so this focused the lesson around what the students wanted to learn. I also incoporated an active word wall in which they could add words into categories under the solar system. It was effect at allowing the students to support before, during, and after text, online, and media resources about the solar system in order to keep the students actively engaged during the lesson. By the end of the lesson the students were able to name and create the solar system, weather patterns, and moon phases. The classroom discussions were very surprising and great. Here are the steps to creating an effect KWL in the classroom.
A. "Know" Step:
Initiate discussion with the students about what they already know about the topic of the text.
Start by using a brainstorm procedure. Ask the students to provide information about where and how they learned the information.
Help them organize the brainstormed ideas into general categories.
B. "Want to Learn" Step:
Discuss with the students what they want to learn from reading an article.
Ask them to write down the specific questions in which they are more interested.
C. "What I Learned" Step:
Ask the students to write down what they learned from the reading.
Ask them to check the questions they had generated in the "Want to Learn" Step.