CRS+RAFT

RAFT: Instructional Strategy giving the students a role, audience, format and topic, a guided structure for working on projects. Advantage: Authentic purpose, flexible, cross-curricular, a view point different from the student's own

Example: When studying explorers, give the students a choice of explorers (role) and the audience would be the king and queen of the home country. The format is a persuasive letter, and the topic would be "please support my expedition (send me money)" They would use the internet to research the explorer, Kidspiration to organize information/plan, Pixie to illustrate the explorer, Word Processing to write the letter and import pictures/images.