KWL Research Instructions and Rubric

Instructions: Each week you will be given an article to read about various topics throughout the
school year. With each article a KWL chart will be supplemented to help your understanding of
the subject and to inquire about any information you want to learn which will be discussed in a
classroom setting. At the end of every week we will be going over the article together and have
a class discussion about the topic and its components.

Rubric:

Category A-B C-F Points

Possible

Fill out the column as Column only has one

What I Know much as possible on idea or none at all 5
what you know about filled out in this
the topic. column.

3-4 ideas about what 1-2 ideas about what

What I Want to Know you may want to you may want to 5
learn about. learn about

What I Learned 3 New Ideas/Topics 0-1 New Ideas/Topics 5

Total Points Possible - - 15