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Rafts

Rafts. Role Audience Format Topic Strong Verbs. Today’s goals. Become familiar with the writing strategy R.A.F.T. Roles Audience Format Topic. Why RAFTS?. Help students understand their role as a writer Draws attention to audience when writing Offers choice to students

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Rafts

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  1. Rafts Role Audience Format Topic Strong Verbs

  2. Today’s goals • Become familiar with the writing strategy R.A.F.T. • Roles • Audience • Format • Topic

  3. Why RAFTS? Help students understand their role as a writer Draws attention to audience when writing Offers choice to students Consideration of a topic from multiple perspectives Strengthens VOICE

  4. When to use Raft? • Closure activity • Strategy allows students to synthesize a vast array of their learning • Quick Write • Getting students engaged

  5. Rafts for Rights and Responsibilities – Reading Unit 2 Role: News reporter/Journalist Audience: General Public (readers) Format: Newspaper Report Topic: Explain how events from Ruby Bridges, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks impacted the rights and responsibilities of people in the United States.

  6. Steps in creating a RAFT • Using essential questions and standards, identify the writing topic. • Brainstorm possible roles. • Decide the audience for this communication. • Using that audience, determine the writing format • Can be used to differentiate …

  7. Bill of Rights • Animal in the Blank Park Zoo • Vacations using past tense in Spanish • Unit Rates • Stem and Leaf Plots • Analogy and Animal Farm • Polyrhythmic Work • Basketball: skills and teamwork identify the writing topic 1

  8. Characters from a story • Historical figures • Vocab words • Instruments/tools • Minerals or chemical elements • Public servant • Musical instruments • Shapes/colors • Cities, countries, continents • Diseases • Types of Fabric • Authors or inventors • Brand name or object • Scientists • Politicians • Geographic formations • Composers/artists • Business or industry person • Technical terms • Key terms Brainstorm possible roles 2

  9. Elementary School students • Newspaper readers • President of the United States • Readers of a Blog • Museum-goers • Team members Decide the audience for this communi-cation 3

  10. Diary entry • Bulleted list • Obituary • Recipe • Movie critic • Editorial • Gossip column • Comic • Map • Print Ad • Song • Monologue • Radiocast • Museum guide • Interview • Political speech • Cheer • Sales pitch determine the writing format 4

  11. Other examples

  12. Merrill examples Your turn! Give it a try in your group:

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