Procedure Guide: DRAW

Purpose: To provide strategies for reading and interpreting nonfiction texts.

Preparation

• Select the text passage to be read, possibly a textbook.
• Prepare transparencies to use when modeling the strategy. Select higher order inferential questions.

Before

• Explain the purpose of the activity.
• Model the DRAW strategy using Think-Aloud.
• Divide class into small groups.

During

• Have students follow the steps of the DRAW strategy as they read and interpret the selected text.
• The steps of the DRAW strategy are:

Draw: Have one member of each group draw from a list a comprehension questions about the text, and read the question aloud to the members of his/her group.

Read: Have all members of the group read the text to find the answer to the question.

Attend: Encourage all group members to attend/listen to and participate in the small-group discussion as they work together to locate in the text the answer to question.

Write: Allow time for the group members to write their answer to the question.

After

• Ask students to arrange themselves in one large circle.
• Have each small group read their question, and explain how they located the answer in the text. There are at least three options for whole-group sharing.

Option 1: Distribute to every student all questions in the list, and have students take

notes as the groups share their answer and explain how they located the answer.

Option 2: Direct small groups to sequence themselves to address the questions and

answers in the text. Have student take notes as each group explains their answer.

Option 3: When the DRAW strategy is completed, have all students take notes as

groups and answer their selected question. Allow time fro students to work

independently to write a summary of the text that was read for this assignment.

Assessment

Answers to the DRAW questions

Understanding of text and questions expressed in summary