Welcome to Camp Edventure!

Welcome to Camp Edventure!

RAFT Activities

RAFT Activities

What is RAFT?


R Role of the Writer - Who are you as the writer? A soldier? A homeless person? An auto mechanic? An endangered animal? A circle?

A Audience - To whom are you writing? Your family at home? A friend? Your teacher? Readers of a newspaper? A local bank? An oil company?

F Format - What form will the writing take? Is it a letter? A speech? A poem? An advertisement or commercial?

T Topic (+ strong Verb) - What's the subject or the point of this piece? For example to persuade the enemy to spare your life - To plead for a re-test - To call for stricter regulations on oil drilling.

Example:

Role: a plant
Audience: the sun
Format: thank you letter
Topic: how the sun is important to it

You are a plant writing a thank you letter to the sun telling it how the sun is important to him.

For each day's RAFT activity your group will work together to write the day's assignment. Compose your assignment as a group on paper first. Once you have your RAFT assignment written, on the blog page click on the word Comment to open the writing space. Put your group name first and then type in your response.
When you have finished:
In the drop down window next to Comment as select the profile Anonymous.
Click on Post Comment .







Thursday June 17 RAFT Activity

For each day's RAFT activity your group will work together to write the day's assignment. Compose your assignment as a group on paper first.
Once you have your RAFT assignment written, on the blog page click on the word Comment to open the writing space.
Put your group name first and then type in your response.
When you have finished:
In the drop down window next to Comment as select the profile Anonymous.
Click on Post Comment .
Role: Zero
Audience: Whole numbers
Format: Letter
Topic: Importance of the number 0.

1 comment:

  1. AnonymousJune 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM

    DEAR WHOLE NUMBERS,
    Zero save a space for the other numbers like an exzample if you forget the number zero is inportant because if you put just the number 1 you will get 1 cookie but if you add the number 0 you will get 10 cooies.

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