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

14.  Science:
http://www.writingfix.com/wac/Writing_Acr
oss_Curriculum_RAFTS_Science.htm
 All
Subjects:http://cabellcountyteachers.wikisp
aces.com/search/view/RAFT

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/