The second instructional strategy that I taught in my classroom is a written expression strategy called RAFT. R stands for role of the author, A stands for audience the author is writing to, F stands for what format the writing should be in - whether it should be in a letter format, bibliography, etc., and T stands for the topic you are writing about. This assignment can come after reading a text, whether is be a novel students are responding to, or a short story, poem, etc. When I taught this strategy in my class, we read the book called Faithful Elephants which is based on a true story. This was more like a picture book, but the pictures were good for my students to actually see and comprehend what was going on so the writing assignment would be easy for them. After reading the story, I had my class get into groups of four and did an activity called four corners, where students were given butcher paper and on each corner of the butcher paper, the students were to individually use bullet points to summarize what happened in the story. After they finished and torn off their corners, the students were to combine their information they wrote individually into a group summary in the center of the butcher paper. Students were able to use color and draw pictures as well. This activity was to make sure they comprehended what took place in the story. Next, I had the students complete the RAFT strategy. Their role was the head zookeeper. Their audience was to the general public. Their format was a letter. Their topic was to write to the general public to ensure their safety during World War II. I also had some differentiation to where I had some students write as if they were the general public to the zoo and give suggestions as to how they could save the animals by not having to put them to sleep. This worked out very well. The story is very sad.