How I would use a R.A.F.T. and an Anticipation Guide

I am doing a RAFT writing this blog post.  Mrs. Steffes is sneaky.  Every week we are writing a RAFT.  I am writing from the role of a student teacher to my audience, which are the people in my blog group, my formant is the blog, and my topic is the RAFT, a classroom reading strategy.  

 I had never heard of R.A.F.T. before this class.  I like the concept.  This type of writing makes students think outside of the box and write from a viewpoint that they are not acustom to.  Instead of passively answering questions, they are actively involved in the creative writing process based on text evidence.  RAFT also meets the content standards for reading, writing, and speech (by working in collaborative groups).  The textbook suggests to introuduce RAFT after completing a reading.  I think I would project this image of a RAFT on the board and go over the different parts.  I would have students think of the characters and objects in the text that was read that could be used as a point of view.   

image source: https://jelliseduc310strategies.wordpress.com/writing-strategies/raft-writing/

image source: http://rbcomprehensionstrategies.weebly.com/raft.html

My second strategy is the Anticipation Guide.  I really liked how the teacher in the video presented the anticpation guide.  I like how the teacher told the students not to look for the answers to the guide in their textbook because the anwers aren't there.  What I like about the guide is that it gets students to use their brain and create something original instead of scanning a text and looking for answers.  However, the textbook presents this strategy as being supported by text evidence.  The textbook suggests having students use the text to confirm, elaborate, or reject the statements in the anticipation guide. This strategy can be used with any subject and any topic.  You can make anticipation guides really simple like this bell ringer activity for math.  I think this would also be good to use with science vocabulary and concepts.  

image source: http://slideplayer.com/slide/7694772/

This slide closely models the description in the textbook. What I would do differently is have a before and after column to see if students changed their opinion after reading the text. 

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https://www.slideshare.net/matpolta/anticipation-guides-ppt-52507900

The textbook gave an example of using an anticipation guide with a book.  Here is one example that I found for a fourth grade class with a popular author, Judy Blume. 

image source: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Tales-of-a-Fourth-Grade-Nothing-Anticipation-Guide-Before-Reading-104388