K-W-L (What I Know, What I Want to Know, and What I Learned) is a teaching strategy developed by Donna Ogle (1986) used to encourage reading by first activating students’ prior knowledge, then developing questions of interest to focus attention during reading, and finally reflecting on what was learned.
This method is used by educators to activate high order thinking skill which will help students construct meaning from what they read and help them monitor their progress toward their goals.