RAFT is a writing strategy that helps students understand their role as a writer, the audience they will address, the varied formats for writing, and the topic they'll be writing about. By using this strategy, teachers encourage students to write creatively, to consider a topic from a different perspective, and to gain practice writing for different audiences. Students learn to respond to a writing prompt that requires them to think about various perspectives (Santa & Havens, 1995):

Concepts

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Additional Tags

adlit, adlit.org, adolescent literacy, classroom literacy strategies, raft writing, instructional strategies, writing

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

RL.7.6 WHST.6-8.5 W.7.5 W.7.4 W.6.4 W.8.4 W.8.5 W.9-10.3.c W.6.5 W.9-10.3.a CCRA.SL.1