These free KWL chart templates give you 8 Word documents on A4 and US Letter: a classic KWL chart, a KWHL chart, a KWL plus chart with a summary box and a KWL chart for young learners. I’m Patrick Elliott, a teacher and Inclusion Lead. I start new topics with a KWL chart in my own classroom, so I built these with clear prompts under each heading and boxes big enough to write in.

In this guide, you’ll find what a kwl chart is, which version suits your lesson, and how to fill one in on screen or on paper.

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What’s in the KWL Chart Templates

Paper	Version	Best for
A4	KWL	What I Know, Want to know and Learned
A4	KWHL	Adds How I will find out
A4	KWL Plus	KWL with a summary box at the bottom
A4	Young Learners	Big boxes to write or draw in
US Letter	KWL	What I Know, Want to know and Learned
US Letter	KWHL	Adds How I will find out
US Letter	KWL Plus	KWL with a summary box at the bottom
US Letter	Young Learners	Big boxes to write or draw in

👉 Every heading and box is click-and-type, so students can fill it in on a computer, or you can print it for pens and pencils.

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What Is a KWL Chart?

A KWL chart has three columns: what I Know, what I Want to know and what I Learned. Students fill in the first two before a topic or a text, which brings back what they already know and gives them questions to read for, and the third column at the end. It works in every subject.

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Which KWL Chart Should You Use?

• KWL: the classic three columns, with a short prompt under each heading.
• KWHL: adds How I will find out, for research projects that use books, websites or people.
• KWL plus: adds a summary box, so students pull together the most important things they learned.
• Young learners: big boxes with I know, I want to know and I learned, for writing or drawing.

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How to Use It in Class

1. Before the topic, ask students to fill in the K column with everything they already know.
2. Turn their wonderings into questions in the W column.
3. Teach the topic or read the text, then fill in the L column, ticking the questions they answered.
4. Use the questions still unanswered as research or homework.

Correct any wrong ideas in the K column gently at the end, when students can see for themselves what they learned.

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How to Print at the Right Size

Print at 100% on plain paper, one per student, or display it on the board and fill it in together as a class.

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FAQs

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Conclusion

These kwl chart templates help students organise their thinking before they write, human-made by a teacher and ready to print or fill in from Word.

Choose your paper size above, download the ZIP, and for more graphic organizers try the mind map templates.

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