K-W-W-L: Questioning the Known.

The purpose of this article is to revisit and offer a suggestion to extend the K-W-L instructional activity (What I #now, What I Want to Learn, What I Learned) (Ogle, 1986). Since its earli est formal recognition, K-W-L has helped young learners develop appro priate questions for research and orga nize what they know. In recent years, K-W-L has been revised to address emerging educational needs. For exam ple, in K-W-L Plus (Carr & Ogle, 1987), learners develop their own ques tions for study. I have extended K-W-L in two ways. First, I scaffold for young learners so that they can generate questions from their knowledge. This encourages life long learning and guides students to continually refine what they know. Second, I extend K-W-L with the in clusion of a fourth column: the where column. I have found that young learn ers often generate wonderful questions but are then discouraged because they lack the resources to find their answers.