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  • Teacher Toolbox
    • Thinking Routines
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    • Common Core
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    • Standards Based Grading
    • Writing
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    • Hart Middle School
    • Reuther Middle School
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    • West Middle School
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    • Moving Learning Forward 2015 Conference
    • Moving Learning Forward 2014 Conference

RAFT

Description:
The RAFT strategy uses writing-to-learn activities to enhance understanding of informational text.  The writing is done in a non-traditional format that encourages creative thinking and motivates students to reflect in unusual ways about concepts they have read. Students process information rather than retell factual answers.
R = Role       A = Audience       F = Format      T = Topic

How to Use the Strategy:
  1. Teacher provides students with the ROLE they must take (ie: a congressman, a planet, an observer, etc.)
  2. Teacher provides students with the AUDIENCE they will be writing for (ie: U.S. Supreme Court, Rochester Police Task Force, a parent, etc.)
  3. Teacher provides students with the FORMAT that will be used to express the information (ie: poem, business letter, diary, etc.)
  4. Teacher provides students with the TOPIC for the writing (ie: cell division, second amendment, global warming, etc.)


**Teacher may also decide to allow students to choose their own Role, Audience, and Format around a particular Topic of study.  

Resources
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