CAN YOU RAP?

R.A.P. is a reading response strategy that gives students an outline on the most effective way to answer a question while meeting the Common Core State Standards of citing textual evidence. It can be used for both stating what the text says explicitly, as well as for making evidence based inferences.

R.A.P. is an acronym for the following:

     Restate the question

     Answer the question (share your knowledge of the topic)

     Prove you are right (Include two or more textual evidence details from the story) 

In writing class, the R.A.P.  strategy will be modeled for students daily until they are comfortable enough to use the strategy on their own. Practice makes perfect, and we will do much of that in class so that the students feel confident and successful in using this strategy for their writing!!!!!!!

During reading class, we work on Text Dependent Analysis (TDA) writing and prompts. Students must respond to a prompt that asks them to use textual evidence to support and prove their answer. R.A.P. will help to make this process much easier for the students and give them a guideline to follow until they are comfortable enough to expand their answers independently!