STRENGTHS AND

WEAKNESSES OF KWL

Prepared by:
Seow Lee Fern
Norizma Harliana Bt. Juhar
 BENEFITS OF KWL

 increase the quality of interaction between students

and teachers
 promotes active reading. Paulson and Faust (2000)
define active learning as any activities students do in
a classroom other than just listening to the
instructor's lecture. Research shows that students
understand the material better and retain it longer if
they can react to lecture or course material actively
 Increase motivation among the students
 Develop vocabulary
 Understand questions better
 Improve the quality of thinking
- students apply higher and critical thinking strategies
which help them construct meaning from what they read
and help them monitor their progress toward their goals
- research shows that active learning strategies like K-W-
L lead students to engage in higher-order thinking such
as analysis, synthesis and evaluation (Bonwell & Eison,
1991; Muskingum College, 1999). These higher levels of
thinking are necessary.
 Remember better what they read
 Enhance reading comprehension and deeper
understanding of texts
 Learn an effective study (learning to learn) skill
 Become more active readers
 Develop the classroom into a learning
community, make them more likely to stay in
classroom
 K-W-L can be used as an initial tool to allow feedback on
what information students possess about the topic to be
taught, what questions they have about this topic and
what they have learned when the instructor is ready to
move on to the next topic.
 This strategy prompts the students to identify previous
knowledge, to consider what they want or need to know
and list the useful information learned from the selection
during reading (Aldridge, 1989; Carr & Ogle, 1987;
Simpson, 1996).
 WEAKNESSES OF KWL

 For students with limited English proficiency, they

have to take longer time to complete the task

 Students will spent long time to finish complete the

text because they are consists of different level of
students.

 Some of the students maybe do not know at all

about the reading text, they may be not interest to
do the task