Literacy Strategies for Math
Building Numeracy through Literacy
Activating Prior Knowledge
& Writing Prompts to Inform Instruction
Monica Lang
Princess Anne High School
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R.A.F.T.
Role of the Writer: Who are you? ...What are you?...
Audience: To Whom are you writing?...
Format: What form with the writing be in?... a greeting card,
letter, email, memo, text, tweet, poem, classified ad
Topic: What are you writing about?
Tell Me Something you KNOW to be true about…
(APK… Accessing Prior Knowledge)
Reflect & Explain… Discussion Prompt Prompt
Visible Thinking & Learning…
Visible Thinking & Learning…
What’s the Story? …Solving Practical Problems Problems Problems
What’s the Gist?... Unit One-Pager
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Sentence Starters…
Create a R.A.F.T.
Reflect & Explain Discussion Prompt
What’s the Story? …Solving Practical Problems
Tell Me Something you KNOW to be true about…
(APK… Accessing Prior Knowledge)
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