The Thistle - An E-Newsletter of Scotch College, Perth, Western Australia

6B RAPS Super Stars

This week, the 6B boys have been enthusiastically improving their RAPS skills. No, not RAPS of the musical variety, this is RAPS of a literacy variety. By following a prescribed set of steps, the boys are learning to provide full, correctly structured paragraph answers to questions:

R - restate the question

A - answer the question

P - provide proof from the stimulus

S - sum it up with a concluding sentence

The Guided Literacy programme involves the boys being exposed to a stimulus that may be visual, audio or written, then responding to 3 levels of questioning on that stimulus. This week the boys' stimulus was the film clip to Rudimental's song "Free", which instantly grabbed their attention and provided them with a lot of material to write about.

The boys have also been practicing their RAPS during our Reading Circle sessions in the library and I am looking forward to seeing them develop this new skill over the course of the year and through their Middle School journey.

Mrs Sophie Berry

6B Homeroom Teacher