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The Outsiders: The K-W-H-L Strategy

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What does your class know about the 1960s? Introduce your unit on S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders with a K-W-H-L chart, which encourages kids to list what they already know about the time period, what they would like to know, how they plan to learn it, and what they have learned by the end of the book.

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Concepts
the outsiders, s.e. hinton, making predictions, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, brainstorming
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Additional Tags
english language arts
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Instructional Ideas
  • Expand the chart's topic beyond the setting of the book, and into the literary themes (friendship, crime, etc)
  • Have kids update their list in a language arts journal throughout the novel unit
  • Assign independent research about the time period to kids, and have them report on what they have learned
Classroom Considerations
  • Instructions are generalized, but the worksheets are more specific
Pros
  • Comes with student and teacher versions of the chart
Cons
  • None