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Ready Set Go Woah: KWL for Ender's Game Lesson PlanReady Set Go Woah: KWL for Ender's Game Lesson Plan
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4th - 7th
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English Language Arts
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Duration
30 mins
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2006
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Ready Set Go Woah: KWL for Ender's Game

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Readers of Orson Scott Card's award-winning science fiction novel, Ender's Game use the provided KWL worksheet to list what they already know about war, what they think they will learn in reading the book, the new information they did learn, and questions they have about the topic.

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ender's game

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • The KWL strategy may be used with any text

Classroom Considerations

  • Only one topic is suggested

Pros

  • The reading comprehension strategy encourages readers to connect new knowledge to what they already know, to summarize, and make predictions based on evidence in the text

Cons

  • None

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