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!

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