RACE Writing | Life Cycles, Environment, Ecosystems, Adaptations | Test Prep

★★ This is a fully DIGITAL resource to help your elementary students master the RACE writing strategy for writing open-ended extended constructed responses! This activity will help them practice typing their response in a digital format.

They also will be learning about Adaptations, Life Cycles of Plants and Animals, Ecosystems and Changes in Environments for science! You can use the Informational Slides as Science Lessons also.

This resource includes 4 non-fiction, informative reading passages with an open-ended question for an extended constructed response.

The R.A.C.E. Strategy is explained in the google slides and it has a space for them to write each sentence as a rough draft.

• R - Restate key words
• A - Answer all parts of the question
• C - Cite Evidence from the text
• E - Explain your answer and Edit

Articles INCLUDED:

1. Environmental Changes and the Effect on Organisms
2. Ecosystems
3. Adaptations
4. Life Cycles - Lady Beetles, Tomato Plants and Frogs

CONTAINS:

• Slides with informational reading
• A slide to teach/review R.A.C.E.
• Rough draft slides that leads students through each letter of RACE
• Final Draft slide where they write their paragraph.

All activities are on GOOGLE SLIDES and pair easily with GOOGLE CLASSROOM.

PERFECT FOR:

• Distance Learning
• Small group guided lessons
• Hybrid Classrooms
• In-class practice
• Literacy Center Activity
• Digital Homework
• ELA Test Prep

***Sample answers are currently NOT included here.***

This is a Google Slides activity that allows students to read a short, informative passage on the slide, write directly in the answer box for each RACE letter, and then create their final draft paragraph.

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