Strategy Use ConstructivismPre-reading Strategy: Before Reading Strategy: K – What do I already know? W – What do I want to know? and L – What did I learn? KWL organizer. The teacher will model the preview process by displaying the KWL graphic organizer on an overhead projector.K. The first step in this approach is Step K, which is defined as accessing what I know. In the first part of this step, the teacher will write the topic on the board and students will think about what they know about it.W. In the second part of this step, students are encouraged to develop categories for the ideas they have been thinking about. The second step is step W which determines what I want to learn. In this step, students are encouraged to create questions and are asked to write down the ones that interest them the most. The last step is step L which recalls what I learned through reading. During this stage, students write or discuss what they have learned, paying particular attention to their initial questions. I will use this strategy to help me get a sense of students' prior knowledge of the classic literature The Secret Garden. A comprehensive KWL chart can help students reflect and evaluate their learning experience and is also a useful assessment tool for teachers. This approach emphasizes the student's prior knowledge. The strategy demonstrates the theory of constructivism, because constructivist pedagogy proposes that new knowledge is constructed from old knowledge. It upholds the educational belief that as teachers, it is essential that we make connections between new material presented and students' prior experiences. KWL charts can be used to develop discourse and shared understanding since they record what is known...... middle of article ......students will also be able to evaluate information in order to determine what is important as well as to develop their knowledge of textual structures and their general textual intelligence (Huffman).1. Santa Fe Public Schools are recovering from [email protected]. Huffman, Kevin, Commissioner, Department of Education, Reading in the Content Area, retrieved from http://tn.gov/education/ci/english/reading.shtml.3. Laura Robb, Scholastic, 2013, Reading Strategies That Work: Teaching Your Students to Become Better Readers, Scholastic Inc., retrieved from www.teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/strategies.4. Teacher Vision, 2013, Teacher Resource, Pearson Education Inc., retrieved from www.teachervision.com.5. Donna Kester Phillips, Niagara University, 2008, Guided Reading: Constructivism in Action, retrieved from www.jpacte.org/uploads/2008-1-phillips.pdf