Extended response writing

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Answering extended response

Prepare students for the writing prompt on state testing with the RAFT writing strategy. RAFT helps students analyze the writing prompt before they write helping to prepare them for success. This is especially helpful for the SBAC assessment. RAFT can be used with students as young as 1st grade as they work to understand what they're being asked to write. This RAFT strategy post walks through how to use RAFT and includes free resources for introducing it with your students.

It's that wonderful time of year! Crunch time. The state tests are just around the corner. In Ohio, our state tests are the last week of April and the first week of May. Last year, our school analyzed our results and realized that written response was one of our major weaknesses. As a result, I developed the following lesson. I chose five particular elements for students to focus on and then created the anchor chart above. Students also glued a copy of the anchor chart in their reader's…

Writing an extended response strategy chart