KWL table. A KWL table, or KWL chart, is a graphical organizer designed to help in learning. The letters KWL are an acronym, for what students, in the course of a lesson, already know, want to know, and ultimately learn. It is a part of the constructivist teaching method where students move away from what are considered traditional methods of teaching and learning.
(rÄ­-dÅ­kâ²shÉn) n. 1. The act or process of reducing. 2. The result of reducing: a reduction in absenteeism. 3. The amount by which something is lessened or diminished: a reduction of 12 percent in violent crime. 4. A sauce that has been thickened or concentrated by boiling.
of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures. 2. of or relating to change from one form to another: reductive chemical processes. 3. employing an analysis of a complex subject into a simplified, less detailed form; of, pertaining to, or employing reductionism; reductionistic. noun.