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Start with
• baskets, bins, drawers• prompts
•Choose a prompt from a basket.
•Follow a formula for each style of writing.
•Return the prompt to the bin. (color code)
•Evaluate your writing.
Genres•Narrative•Persuasive•Expository
•Journal•Creative
•Cart and Horse
Expository: main idea, supporting details, conclusion
(blue ink)
•Narrative: sequence of events; can be fiction or non-fiction; transition words (orange ink)
Persuasive: facts, reasons, examples, logical (purple ink)
•Journal: •point of view
•(pink ink)
Creative writing:
use sizzle, give
reader spice
(variety of ink)
•Expository
Expository
Purpose: explain
Clue words: tell whyexplain
Expositoryintroductionfirst reason
second reasonthird reason
closing
Expository
clue words:
tell how
Expositoryintroduction
first stepsecond stepthird step
closing
NarrativePurpose: narrate
Clue words:what happened
tell a story about
tell about
Introductionwhat happened
firstwhat happened
secondwhat happened
third closing
PersuasivePurpose: persuade
Clue words:convince, persuade
Persuasivewho is the audience in the essay? The
principal, your parents, a classmate?
Persuasive
IntroductionFirst advantage
Second advantage
Third advantage(Counterpoint)
Closing
Journal Writing
Creative Writing
Students should….
• feel comfortable when writing.
• not have to share their writing.
Teachers should…• model, model, model
Organize•Have a spiral writing workshop notebook.
•Genres shared by groups each week.
•Prompt stick to your desk.•Return to proper location.
Writing NotebookWriting Notebook•
• Tighten up
Loosen up
ROLE AUDIENCE
FORMAT TOPIC
• Concepts to be learned
• Brainstorm RAFT
• All students – or choice of RAFTS
RAFT examples for math
Role: Zero
Audience: Whole numbers
Format: Campaign speech
Topic: The importance of zero
Parts of a graph Variables
TV audience Equations
Script Letter
How to read a graph Role of variables
Lungs Frog
Cigarettes Tadpole
Complaint Letter
Effects of smoking Life cycle
Colorado River Duck
Rafters U.S. Senators
Travel guide Letter
What you’ll see here Effects of Oil Spill
Bird Plant
Wright Brothers Sun
Complaint Thank you note
Disruption of Skies Role in my growth
Final ideas of RAFTS•Colonial teenagers writing a play for younger children explaining hunting on the river.
•As a fish, write an article for Field and Stream describing the influence of a factory along the river.
Reading Response
•Circle
•Clothes Pins
•Journals to share
•How do we reach all students in reading and writing?
In closing
• Story of Alzheimer’s patients
• Connections to our young students
Thank You!
• Did I sign your paper?
• Please take any copies.
• Please let me know if you’d like me to email you with any information covered today. (I have the list)