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What is a RAFT?

What is a RAFT?. Kirk Guidry, Director of Professional Development. Animal School. What is a RAFT?. Differentiation Strategy: RAFT. RAFT stands for… R ole A udience F ormat T opic. What is RAFT?.

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What is a RAFT?

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  1. What is a RAFT? Kirk Guidry, Director of Professional Development

  2. Animal School

  3. What is a RAFT? Differentiation Strategy: RAFT • RAFT stands for… Role Audience Format Topic

  4. What is RAFT? • The RAFTs Technique (Santa, 1988) is a system to help students understand their role as a writer, the audience they will address, the varied formats for writing, and the expected content. It is an acronym that stands for: • Role of the Writer - Who are you as the writer? Are you Sir John A. Macdonald? A warrior? A homeless person? An auto mechanic? The endangered snail darter? • Audience - To whom are you writing? Is your audience the Canadian people? A friend? Your teacher? Readers of a newspaper? A local bank? • Format - What form will the writing take? Is it a letter? A classified ad? A speech? A poem? • Topic + strong Verb - What's the subject or the point of this piece? Is it to persuade a goddess to spare your life? To plead for a re-test? To call for stricter regulations on logging? • Almost all RAFTs writing assignments are written from a viewpoint different from the student's, to another audience rather than the teacher, and in a form different from the ordinary theme. Therefore, students are encouraged to use creative thinking and response as they connect their imagination to newly learned information.

  5. What Is Its Purpose? The purpose of RAFTs is to give students a fresh way to think about approaching their writing. It occupies a nice middle ground between standard, dry essays and free-for-all creative writing. RAFTs combines the best of both. It also can be the way to bring together students' understanding of main ideas, organization, elaboration, and coherence...in other words, the criteria by which compositions are most commonly judged.

  6. Parts of a RAFT Differentiation Strategy: RAFT

  7. Sample RAFT Formats

  8. More Sample RAFT Formats

  9. Sample RAFT Strips

  10. Sample RAFT Strips

  11. Sample RAFT Strips

  12. Sample RAFT Tea Party At Midnight!! Today I am at the Boston Harbor where there is a breaking story to report. The British Colonists are out of control. They are trying to punish Britain for taking their tea. The colonists were very angry. Around midnight they decided to dress up like Indians and boarded the British ship in the Boston Harbor. The colonists unloaded all the tea and threw it in the bay. No one on the ship was injured, but the cargo of tea was a complete loss. The colonists then left the ship and disbanded. Further details will be reported as they come in.

  13. Sample Raft

  14. Sample Raft RoleWilliam DollarAudienceU.S. Mint/Bureau of EngravingFormatMemorandumTopicPlead for Time Off TO: Personnel DirectorFROM: William DollarDATE: April xx, 19xxRE: Request for Vacation My name is Dollar, Bill Dollar. I've been on the job for the last twelve months without a break, and I am writing to request a two-week vacation. In considering my request, I think it's essential that you understand exactly how much work we dollar bills have to do during our time of service for the United States Treasury. One-dollar bills are the more prevalent, most used, and most abused of all the paper currency. Our life expectancy is only about 18 months. By comparison, the average $100 bill has been in circulation around nine years! My journey through the many hands that hold me begins after I leave the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and get sent out to a Federal Reserve Bank. I was shipped to Richmond, Virginia, although I could have been sent to any one of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks located throughout the country. While it's nice to travel and see the country, that first trip involves being bundled in currency "bricks" and chunked into armored trucks...no daylight or sunshine for us there! Then we get sent to regular banks when they need to increase the cash they have on hand for their customers. So while it seems like our job is pretty easy to start with, let me assure you it gets much worse from there. In my case, I went out of our bank with a whole lot of other bills to become part of the day-laborer payroll of a construction company. It turns out there's a lot of house-building going on in the fast-growing Research Triangle area of North Carolina, and a lot of temporary help is hired on that has to be paid at the end of each day. I was paid out to a guy who'd been hauling sand all day to the cement mixers. On his way home, he stopped by the Better Burger place for a buffalo burger and fries, and I ended up going into the cash register there. When they were closing up that evening, the manager divided up tip money among the wait staff, and I was off again. I went into this very nice woman's purse, but I didn't stay there long. In fact, I didn't stay any place too long; I was in and out of cash registers, fed into soft drink machines, passed back and forth between husbands and wives and kids, folded into swans and other strange shapes at late-night dinner tables, crumpled up and wadded into jeans pockets, and even washed a few times in laundromats. But I know how crucial we are: employers use us to pay their workers, and the workers use us to buy food and medicines and clothes and gas, and then we're used to pay the people who work in the grocery and drug stores, the malls, and the gas stations. Then those people use us all over again to pay not only for goods but also for services like haircuts and car washes. It is true that in some ways my life is easier than it was for dollar bills that came before me, because people use checks, credit cards, debit cards, and other electronic transfers more and more all the time. But there will always be a need for good old hard cash like me. It's just that I'm awfully tired from all my travels, and I may only have another year at the most left in me before I'm recalled, retired, and shredded into thousands of tiny pieces. I'd like to have time to recover from all this wear and tear so that I can keep on circulating until I'm in no condition to continue. Will you consider my request? Sincerely, William P. Dollar

  15. Practice RAFTINGActivity 1

  16. Examples Role: Roots Audience: Flower Format: Letter Topic: You’d be lost without me January 14, 2011 Dear Flower: I know that you think you are “all that” with your beautiful colored petals….pink!!! Everyone just loves you and loves to look at you because you’re so pretty. You even smell nice! No one ever thinks of me because I’m all white and hairy looking. I guess they think I’m not really attractive, therefore, I’m not very important. Wrong!!!!! Without me you’d be nothing….totally lost! I bring you all of your moisture and nutrients. I cause you to be able to stand up and reach for the sun that you need to grow and prosper. If I fail…you fail! Ha! So I need my proper respect. I am your ugly conjoined twin that you need to live. As soon asyou are separated from me you will start to die. And in a day or so, it will be all over with. I hope you will reconsider our separation and CALL ME! I’ll be rootin’ for your call! Love you, Your roots

  17. Dear Harvey Hare, I hope this email reaches you well. After the race you seemed a little shocked and upset that I had beat you to the finish line. I’d like to briefly describe how I, a slow yet steady tortoise, was able to get there fast than you, a quick and nimble hare. You seemed to grossly underestimate my determination when I set my mind to do something. This is probably why you decided that you could take a little nap or two during the time of the race. While you were resting though, I was still diligently pushing on with only the hope of completing the race (which was a difficult task for me) in mind. Because you believed so strongly that I was weak and would fail you were lazy and not at your best, while I who also thought you would probably win gave my personal BEST to the effort. So I guess when I saw you sleeping by that stone and crept on past you as quietly as I possibly could I was able to get a good strong lead in the race. Sorry you overslept and couldn’t make it to the finish line in time to stop my “under-dog” victory, but that’s what happens when you are over cocky and you underestimate your competition. Hope you learned a lesson on ALWAYS BRINGING YOUR “A” GAME because I did and I won. Feel free to email me if you need any tips on how to always give it your all. Good Luck with your races in the future, Terrance the Tortoise Ttortoisewontherace@watchitonyoutube.com

  18. Role: Differentiated Instruction Audience: Teachers Format: Rap Topic: Why Am I Important? The call me DI I can make your class fly Students come in all sizes and shapes Let those students read, put down them tapes Some practices you just shouldn’t keep They are puttin’ them kids to sleep No two students learn alike If you do DI you class will be like Oooh , Aaah, the teacher can teach Not only that but you will reach So many students that you hadn’t before Everybody jump to the floor They call me DI I can make you class fly If you start others will follow Have the kids act it out or build a model They call me DI I can make your class fly.

  19. Google Search- Activity 2 1. Conduct a Google search and identify one web site you want to share with participants on RAFTS. Once you locate your site, you should record the URL and write it on the flip chart.  2. Part 2 of this activity is that your post a RAFT Strip you found while doing your searchs  that you want to share with the participants.  On the same flipchart you posted your URL, you should post the role, audience, format, topic ...see example below: ROLE: Zero AUDIENCE: Whole Number FORMAT: Campaign Speech TOPIC: Importance of number 0 

  20. RAFT Rubric- Activity 3 • 1. Read the document “What is a Rubric?”   • 2.  Using the Rubric form complete it and score the rubric you wrote in the first activity and reflect on how you would improve the rubric to use in your classroom.

  21. Teacher Created RAFTS- Activity 4 • 1.    Select a unit you teach. • 2.    Determine the learning goals you want students to achieve. • 3.    Develop one RAFT strip that would lead students to an understanding of the topic. • 4.    Complete the blank RAFT form. • 5.    Reflect on the learning experience of designing a RAFT.    

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  25. You miss 100% of the shots you never take!

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