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The original Know, Want to Know, and Learned (KWL) strategy was developed by Donna Ogle in 1989 as a tool to help students actively participate in the comprehension process before, during, and after reading.

In the early 1990s, Rita Wirtz developed two variations to this planning tool to help students with the concept that all reading is cumulative in nature and that reading to extract meaning from texts can be planned even more effectively. This enhanced tool was named KWLW, or by some KWLN, adding the advanced planning question  "What do I want to learn next?"

This reading and comprehension building process is extremely easy to use. On a board (or a piece of paper) draw a table with four columns and write in the four headings to represent the four KWLW questions: What do I already KNOW about this subject?; What do I WANT to learn about this subject:?; What have I LEARNED about this subject?; and the key to tying subject-associated texts together, "What do I WANT to learn NEXT?

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