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What is a RAFT?
How can using the
RAFT Strategy enhance
students’ writing
assignments to be
specific, well focused
and engaging?
 Role Audience Format Topic (R.A.F.T.) is a
writing strategy that helps students
understand a topic from different
perspectives.
 The R.A.F.T. strategy provides a focused
writing assignment and encourages students
to analyze the content while assuming
different roles and addressing different
audiences.
 The strategy motivates students by allowing
for choice and involving them in the topic in
a personal way.
 RAFT assignments encourage students to
uncover their own voices and formats for
presenting their ideas about content
information they are studying.
 developed in 1982 by Dorothy Vandevanter
Student will be able to read a prompt or
writing assignment and determine:
 his/her role as the writer
 who the audience is
 what the format of the assignment should be
 the specific topic on which he/she must
focus
Written Visual Oral Kinesthetic
Diary entry
Bulleted list
Obituary
Invitation
Recipe
Movie critic
FAQs
Editorial
Gossip
column
Comic
Crossword
puzzle
Map
Graphic
organizer
Print ad
Photograph
Fashion
design
Song
Monologue
Radiocast
Museum
guide
Interview
Puppet show
Political
speech
Story teller
Model
Cheer
Mime
Demonstration
Sales pitch
with demos
Sew, cook,
build
Wax museum
 Role of the Writer: Who are you as the
writer? A movie star? The President? A plant?
 Audience: To whom are you writing? A
senator? Yourself? A company?
 Format: In what format are you writing? A
diary entry? A newspaper? A love letter?
 Topic: What are you writing about?
 1) students are asked to think and write from
a real world person's perspective, and they
are asked to shape their ideas to appeal to
an audience outside the classroom;
 2) because they are considering perspective
as they go through the writing process,
students are being asked to think at a much
deeper level of Bloom's Taxonomy.
 Choose a book or topic (T) and identify the
essential purpose of the reading or lesson.
How will writing help meet that goal?
 • Example: After reading Song of the Trees by
Mildred Taylor the students will understand
the racial relationships between whites and
African Americans in Mississippi during the
depression.
 2. Identify a number of role(s) (R) the
students can assume as they write about the
topic.
 • Example: Students can choose to write
about the story as viewed by Cassie, Big Ma,
Mr. Andersen or Papa.
 3. Decide who the audience (A) will be and
what format (F) the writing will follow.
 • Example: The audience may be a child in
the future, a judge, an ex-slave, a new
immigrant, etc.
 The format may be a diary, a news release,
an affidavit, etc.
 4. After the students have read the
assignment, have them choose from the
R.A.F.T. options. Writing can be done
individually or you may group like roles
together.
 MATH:
http://www.writingfix.com/WAC/Writing_Acr
oss_Curriculum_RAFTS_Math.htm
 Social Studies:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/classroom/lessonpl
ans/RAFT.html
 Science:
http://www.writingfix.com/wac/Writing_Acr
oss_Curriculum_RAFTS_Science.htm
 All
Subjects:http://cabellcountyteachers.wikisp
aces.com/search/view/RAFT
 www.graves.kyschools.us/.../Developing%20a%2
0RAFT%20Assignment.doc
 http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/4047
 classrooms.hydeparkschools.org/webpages/.../R
AFT%20Assignments.ppt
 boe.ming.k12.wv.us/...raft/RAFT-
Presentation%20Template.doc
 http://daretodifferentiate.wikispaces.com/R.A.
F.T.+Assignments
 http://www.learningthroughlistening.org/Classro
om-Teaching-Tools/Strategies-and-
Activities/Strategies/R-A-F-T-Strategy/349/

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Raft powerpoint

  • 1. John Bush and Amanda Stewart
  • 2. What is a RAFT? How can using the RAFT Strategy enhance students’ writing assignments to be specific, well focused and engaging?
  • 3.  Role Audience Format Topic (R.A.F.T.) is a writing strategy that helps students understand a topic from different perspectives.  The R.A.F.T. strategy provides a focused writing assignment and encourages students to analyze the content while assuming different roles and addressing different audiences.  The strategy motivates students by allowing for choice and involving them in the topic in a personal way.
  • 4.  RAFT assignments encourage students to uncover their own voices and formats for presenting their ideas about content information they are studying.  developed in 1982 by Dorothy Vandevanter
  • 5. Student will be able to read a prompt or writing assignment and determine:  his/her role as the writer  who the audience is  what the format of the assignment should be  the specific topic on which he/she must focus
  • 6. Written Visual Oral Kinesthetic Diary entry Bulleted list Obituary Invitation Recipe Movie critic FAQs Editorial Gossip column Comic Crossword puzzle Map Graphic organizer Print ad Photograph Fashion design Song Monologue Radiocast Museum guide Interview Puppet show Political speech Story teller Model Cheer Mime Demonstration Sales pitch with demos Sew, cook, build Wax museum
  • 7.  Role of the Writer: Who are you as the writer? A movie star? The President? A plant?  Audience: To whom are you writing? A senator? Yourself? A company?  Format: In what format are you writing? A diary entry? A newspaper? A love letter?  Topic: What are you writing about?
  • 8.  1) students are asked to think and write from a real world person's perspective, and they are asked to shape their ideas to appeal to an audience outside the classroom;  2) because they are considering perspective as they go through the writing process, students are being asked to think at a much deeper level of Bloom's Taxonomy.
  • 9.  Choose a book or topic (T) and identify the essential purpose of the reading or lesson. How will writing help meet that goal?  • Example: After reading Song of the Trees by Mildred Taylor the students will understand the racial relationships between whites and African Americans in Mississippi during the depression.
  • 10.  2. Identify a number of role(s) (R) the students can assume as they write about the topic.  • Example: Students can choose to write about the story as viewed by Cassie, Big Ma, Mr. Andersen or Papa.
  • 11.  3. Decide who the audience (A) will be and what format (F) the writing will follow.  • Example: The audience may be a child in the future, a judge, an ex-slave, a new immigrant, etc.  The format may be a diary, a news release, an affidavit, etc.
  • 12.  4. After the students have read the assignment, have them choose from the R.A.F.T. options. Writing can be done individually or you may group like roles together.
  • 13.  MATH: http://www.writingfix.com/WAC/Writing_Acr oss_Curriculum_RAFTS_Math.htm  Social Studies: http://docsouth.unc.edu/classroom/lessonpl ans/RAFT.html
  • 15.  www.graves.kyschools.us/.../Developing%20a%2 0RAFT%20Assignment.doc  http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/4047  classrooms.hydeparkschools.org/webpages/.../R AFT%20Assignments.ppt  boe.ming.k12.wv.us/...raft/RAFT- Presentation%20Template.doc  http://daretodifferentiate.wikispaces.com/R.A. F.T.+Assignments  http://www.learningthroughlistening.org/Classro om-Teaching-Tools/Strategies-and- Activities/Strategies/R-A-F-T-Strategy/349/