&
WRITING SUPPORTS +1
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PREVIEW +2= 3
1. SURVEY STUDENTS
2. VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES
3. WRITING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
4. RUBRICS
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STUDENTS FIRST +2 = 5
Student profiles inform instructional decisions
To get to know our students we use surveys:
Multiple Intelligence, Edutopia
https://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-
assessment
True Colors,
http://www.quibblo.com/quiz/edQd8L1/True-
Colors-Test-What-is-your-TRUE-personality
Self-Created Google Form Survey
Info used to design student centered activities.
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VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES +3=8
Key is to provide Active Processing
1. Highlighting Key Words in Definition
2. 4 Square - Frayer Model Graphic Organizer
3. Tea Party
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5
Tea Party +8=16
1. Read your 4 square organizer
2. Prepare to teach the vocabulary activity
3. Find a partner with a different vocabulary
activity
4. Share your activity and learn theirs
5. Move to a new partner (2 total)
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VOCAB ACTIVITY #1:
4 Square Vocabulary Graphic Organization +1=17
NON-EXAMPLE EXAMPLES
Interactive Reading
X Collaboration
Jigsaw Activity
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VOCAB ACTIVITY #2:
4 Square Vocabulary Graphic Organization +1=18
X Foldable
Hands On Activity
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VOCAB ACTIVITY #3:
4 Square Vocabulary Graphic Organization +1=19
NON-EXAMPLE EXAMPLES
Meet & Greet
X Speed Dating
Exchanging Ideas
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VOCAB ACTIVITY #2:
4 Square Vocabulary Graphic Organization +1=20
X
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WRITING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS +1=21
Examples
1. RAFT Role Audience Format Topic
2. Sentence Starters for Creative Writing
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RAFT
Writing
Role
Audience
Format
Topic
Taking a
different
perspective
becomes the
focus +1=22
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RAFT acronym +1=24
Role of the Writer - Who are you as the writer? Are you Jay Gatsby? A
warrior? A homeless person? An auto mechanic? The endangered
brown bat?
Audience - To whom are you writing? Is your audience the
government? Another character in a novel? A friend? Your teacher?
Readers of a newspaper? A local bank?
Format - What form will the writing take? Is it a letter? A classified
ad? A speech? A poem? An email?
Topic + strong Verb - What's the subject or the point of this piece? Is
it to persuade a goddess to spare your life? To plead for a re-test? To
call for stricter regulations on logging?
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RAFT in Writing
PUNCTUATION MATTERS! +1=25
Lets eat Grandma.
Lets eat, Grandma.
R - Editor
A Author
F Email
T Why punctuation matters
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RAFTs can +1=26
Be differentiated in a variety of ways:
readiness level, learning profile, and/or
student interest
Be created by students
Be used as introductory hooks into a unit of
study
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Possible RAFT Formats
to Differentiate by Learning Modality +2 = 28
Written Visual Oral Kinesthetic
Diary entry Cartoon/Comic Song Model
Bulleted list Crossword Monologue Cheer
Obituary puzzle Radiocast Mime
Invitation Map Museum Demonstration
Game rules Graphic guide Sales pitch
Recipe organizer Commercial with demos
Movie critic Print ad Interview Sew, cook,
FAQs Photograph Puppet show build
Editorial Fashion design Political Wax museum
Gossip column speech Game
Story teller
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Differentiating a RAFT by Readiness
Teacher assigns RAFT or choices of RAFTs
based on students reading, writing or performance levels +1 = 29
Roles/Audience
Well-known people or charters to lesser known
Basic essential items (vocabulary, inventions,
elements, etc.) to more esoteric items
Easier to understand point-of-view to more
intangible perspective
Formats (while offering choices to students)
Shorter to longer (in prep, process or presentation)
More familiar to more unfamiliar formats
Single step to multiple steps
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Differentiating a RAFT by Readiness
(continued +1=30)
Topics
Easier to interpret to more sophisticated
Concrete & literal to more abstract response
More structured to more open-ended
Small leap in insight & application to larger
leap
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Now you try itif we have time
+1=31
R Cinderella R Prince
A Step Sisters & A Best Friend
Wicked Step Mother F Script with dialogue
F Facebook Post T Did I make the right
T Look at me now! decision?
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SENTENCE STARTERS
Abuelito Who, poem by Sandra Cisneros Julie+2=33
Abuelito who throws coins like rain and asks who
loves him
who is dough and feathers who is ______ (noun and noun, metaphor)
who is a watch and a glass of water who is ____ (noun and noun, metaphor))
whose hair is made of fur whose _____ (noun)
is too sad to come downstairs today is _____(adjective-adj phrase)
who tells me in Spanish you are my diamond who tells me in _____(noun phrase)
who tells me in English you are my sky who tells me in _____
whose little eyes are string whose _____ (adjective, noun,noun-metaphor)
can't come out to play can't _____(verb phrase)
sleeps in his room all night and day sleeps in _____
who used to laugh like the letter k who used to ____
is sick is ____
is a doorknob tied to a sour stick is a ____
is tired shut the door is ___
doesn't live here anymore doesn't ____
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DIFFERENTIATED ASSESSMENT
Anne Ren +1=34
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Using CA ELD Standards in Assessment Plan
Anne Ren +3 = 37
Each ELD Standard represents a language skill that ELs need
in order to become proficient in English
SDAIE lesson = Content AND English language development
A SDAIE lesson has 1 assessment plan that includes:
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