Classroom Projects

2008 Teacher In-service: RAFT Differentiated Writing Activities

At a 2008 in-service the faculty received a demonstration on RAFT (Role/Audience/Format/Title), a strategy for creating differentiated writing activities that can be used for application and assessment of student knowledge in all curricular areas.  This strategy was brought to the school through the Penn Literacy Network.  Each teacher participating in the course worked with a content area team to create a RAFT project for one of their units.  The following are examples of those assignments.

• 6th Grade History
• 8th Grade Science
• Family & Consumer Sciences
• German Woodshop
• Spanish II
• 7th Grade Social Studies
• Business Education
• 6th Grade Language Arts
• 7th Grade Language Arts
• 6th Grade Math
• 7th Grade Math
• Music
• Physical Education
• Remedial Math
• 6th Grade Science
• Tech Ed
• Wellness
• Spanish