Graphic Organizers: K-W-L-H Technique Anticipation/Reaction Guide
Graphic Organizers: K-W-L-H Technique Anticipation/Reaction Guide
Graphic Organizers: K-W-L-H Technique Anticipation/Reaction Guide
Used to describe a central idea: a thing (a geographic region), process (meiosis), concept
(altruism), or proposition with support (experimental drugs should be available to AIDS
victims). Key frame questions: What is the central idea? What are its attributes? What are
its functions?
Series of Events Chain
Used to describe the stages of something (the life cycle of a primate); the steps in a linear
procedure (how to neutralize an acid); a sequence of events (how feudalism led to the
formation of nation states); or the goals, actions, and outcomes of a historical figure or
character in a novel (the rise and fall of Napoleon). Key frame questions: What is the
object, procedure, or initiating event? What are the stages or steps? How do they lead to
one another? What is the final outcome?
Continuum Scale
Used for time lines showing historical events or ages (grade levels in school), degrees of
something (weight), shades of meaning (Likert scales), or ratings scales (achievement in
school). Key frame questions: What is being scaled? What are the end points?
Compare/Contrast Matrix
Name 1
Attribute 1
Attribute 2
Attribute 3
Name 2
Used to show similarities and differences between two things (people, places, events,
ideas, etc.). Key frame question: What things are being compared? How are they similar?
How are they different?
Problem/Solution Outline
Used to represent a problem, attempted solutions, and results (the national debt). Key
frame questions: What was the problem? Who had the problem? Why was it a problem?
What attempts were made to solve the problem? Did those attempts succeed?
Network Tree
Used to show the nature of an interaction between persons or groups (Europeans settlers
and American Indians). Key frame questions: Who are the persons or groups? What were
their goals? Did they conflict or cooperate? What was the outcome for each person or
group?
Fishbone Map
Used to show the causal interaction of a complex event (an election, a nuclear explosion)
or complex phenomenon (juvenile delinquency, learning disabilities). Key frame
questions: What are the factors that cause X ? How do they interrelate? Are the factors
that cause X the same as those that cause X to persist?
Cycle
Used to show how a series of events interact to produce a set of results again and again
(weather phenomena, cycles of achievement and failure, the life cycle). Key frame
questions: What are the critical events in the cycle? How are they related? In what ways
are they self-reinforcing?