R.A.F.T.s in Your Tool Box

My group got this tool box strategy to report on and I really loved that we did. When we were first discussing different aspects of this tool, we were trying to think of all the ways you could differentiate with it and there are so many ways you can! RAFT is an acronym that stands for role, audience, format, and topic.

In this strategy students take on a role, develop a product for a specific audience in a certain way on a specific topic that connects back to that role. The nice thing about this tool is that it can be completed at home or at school and that you don't always  need technology to make it succeed. The most common thing that it differentiates for, according to Tomlinson, is readiness, interest and learning profile.

My group decided to pick the topic of literacy and more importantly the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and we developed our own raft for students to choose from. Below is the link to the RAFT we created.    RAFTS

What I loved about our RAFTS is the products were different depending on the role they took on. Processes were also different depending on what they chose to do. What I also love about RAFTs is that students don't have to stick with exactly what's written, they can come up with their own and even add to the list that teacher has already made and that's when truly learning and differentiation takes place!



Here are some websites to help you learn more about RAFTS and the ways you can use them:
RAFTS Strategy
RAFT in the Classroom
Learning Through Listening
Math RAFTS