RACES Graphic Organizers, Practice with 1,2,3,4 Paragraph Answers Bulletin Board

This RACES Writing Strategy Bundle includes:

1) RACES Bulletin Board including Answer Samples and Sentence Starters

2) 1 Paragraph RACE/R/S Graphic Organizers and Sentence Practice Templates

3) 1, 2, 3 and 4 Paragraph RACES Graphic Organizers and Sentence Practice Templates

4) Sentence Starters Posters and Student Reference Sheets

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INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

PRODUCT #1

RACES Bulletin Board including Answer Samples and Sentence Starters

RACES (and RACE) is an awesome writing strategy used to help students answer reading response questions that require citing text evidence. This complete, ready-to-go bulletin board set comes with letters, header posters, sentence stems, and color-coded fiction and non-fiction examples... Set up these posters front and center, and you'll notice your students referring to them all year long. It's got everything you need to remind students how to answer using the RACES strategy. *This really works great for SPED and LD students!* There are many different lime green, navy blue, and white color combinations, so mix and match to get just the look you want!

Included in this Printable Resource:

Circular Heading Letters (Shown in Thumbnail 4)

*All letters come in 4 lime green and navy blue color combination options.

-4 full-page letters (R, A, C, E)

-19 half-page Circular Heading Letters (R, A, C, E, W, r, i, t, i, n, g, S, t, r, a, t, e, g, y)

4 Horizontal Header Posters, each with one step of the RACE Writing Strategy (Shown in Thumbnail 2)

*These come in 5 lime green and navy blue color combination options.

-Poster 1: R=Reword the Question

-Poster 2: A=Answer the Question

-Poster 3: C=Cite Evidence from the Text

-Poster 4: E=Explain Why That’s Important

-Poster 5: S=Sum Up Your Answer

1 Horizontal Poster with ALL parts of the RACE Writing Strategy

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*These come in 4 lime green and navy blue color combination options.

Wording found on this poster:

R=Reword the Question

A=Answer the Question

C=Cite Evidence from the Text

E=Explain Why That’s Important

S=Sum Up the Answer

1 Vertical Poster with ALL parts of the RACE Writing Strategy

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*These come in 7 lime green and navy blue color combination options.

Wording found on this poster:

R=Reword the question/prompt, forming a complete sentence.

A=Answer all parts of the question/prompt.

C=Cite evidence from the text that proves your answer is correct.

E=Explain the importance of the answer or evidence.

S=Sum Up your answer including words from the question.

4 Horizontal Posters with Examples and/or Sentence Starters

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-“R” Poster shows how to “R”eword the question, forming a complete sentence.

-“A” Poster shows how to “A”nswer all parts of the question/prompt.

-“C” Poster gives 7 sentence stems for “C”iting text evidence.

-“E” Poster gives 11 sentence stems for “E”xplaining the importance.

-"S" Poster gives 9 sentence stems for "S"umming Up the Answer

4 Labeled Horizontal Posters with Sample Answers Using the RACES Strategy

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-1 Color-Coded Fiction Sample Answer

-1 Color-Coded Nonfiction Sample Answer

-1 Non Color-Coded Fiction Sample Answer

-1 Non Color-Coded Nonfiction Sample Answer

*These are sample answers, but there are no written texts to go along with the examples.*

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PRODUCT #2

1 Paragraph RACE/R/S Graphic Organizers and Sentence Practice Templates

Easy-to-follow RACE, RACER, & RACES Writing Strategy Resources are all included!

Use these ready-to-go printable templates with any reading comprehension passage that requires text evidence within a basic written response question. This resource provides practice templates for getting students comfortable with the process of writing one-paragraph answers. Once that happens, writing multi-paragraph answers will be much easier for students to grasp.

What's included?

Separate RACE, RACER, and RACES resources for each of the following:

1) Reference Page with acronyms and steps

-Use these as classroom posters or anchor charts, desk plates, interactive notebook inserts, binder inserts, or laminated for small groups or literacy centers.

2) Graphic Organizers with sentence stems for guidance

3) Guided Practice Templates help students get the hang of writing their answers in sentence format; includes sentence stems for guidance

4) Paragraph Practice Templates help students get used to writing their answers paragraph format; includes sentence stems for guidance

*All come in 2 sizes:

-1 per page (best for classroom posters or anchor charts, binder inserts, formative assessments, and summative assessments)

-2 per page (for interactive notebooks, literacy centers, and small groups)

★The entire resource can be seen in the PREVIEW.★

★All are black and white to save on ink.★

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PRODUCT #3

1, 2, 3 and 4 Paragraph RACES Graphic Organizers & Sentence Practice Templates

Easy-to-follow and ready-to-go RACES Writing Strategy Graphic Organizers and Sentence Practice Pages for:

-1, 2, 3 and 4 Paragraph Answers

-questions requiring 1, 2, and 3 pieces of text evidence per paragraph

No matter where your students are in the process of writing single- or multiple-paragraph answers using RACES, this is a HUGE timesaver for teachers! Use these ready-to-go printable templates with any reading comprehension passage that requires text evidence, and these templates do the rest of the work.

This resource starts with one paragraph answers, which moves seamlessly into two, three, and four-paragraph answers. All four of these come with the options of requiring one piece of text evidence, two pieces of text evidence, and three pieces of text evidence per paragraph. Use one graphic organizer and sentence practice template or several.

What RACES resources are included?

1) Reference Page with acronyms and steps

-Use these as classroom posters or anchor charts, desk plates, interactive notebook inserts, binder inserts, or laminated for small groups or literacy centers.

2) Graphic Organizers with sentence starters for guidance

3) Guided Practice Templates to help students get the hang of writing their answers in sentence format; includes sentence starters for guidance

*All come in 2 sizes:

-1 per page (best for classroom posters or anchor charts, binder inserts, formative assessments)

-2 per page (to save on paper; can also be used for interactive notebooks, literacy centers and small groups)

*This product does not teach students how to use the RACES Writing Strategy. What it does is gives them the framework to move towards mastery.

★Everything is in black and white to save on ink.★

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PRODUCT #4

Sentence Starters Posters and Student Reference Sheets

Sentence starters are invaluable when teaching the RACES Writing Strategy. Coming in 3 different sizes, these reference tools can be used as posters, to make anchor charts, to add to interactive notebooks, as deskplates, or as portable flipbooks students can keep at their fingertips wherever they go. The 3 sizes give teachers so many options for teaching the parts of a great constructed response answer using text evidence! Note: The last two pages of the resource have 4 different Sentence Starters pages. One represents all parts of the RACES Strategy on one convenient page. The other sheet also has 4 different mini reference sheets for convenience; however, those are C, E, S, and Transition Sets.

Each reference tool comes in three sizes: whole page, half page, and quarter page.

Please see Preview for samples of what's included.

Reference Tools Included in this Resource:

-RACES Acronym and each part's meaning

-Restate and Answer (RA) Example

-Cite Text Evidence (C) Sentence Starters

-Explain (E) Sentence Starters

-Sum Up (S) Sentence Starters

-Transition Sets Sentence Starters

This resource can be used in many different ways.

Some examples:

-as posters

-when making anchor charts

-as individual flipbooks

-as note-taking tools inside binders, folders, or notebooks

-in teacher-led small groups

-in centers

-as deskplates

I hope these tools become a valuable and easy to use resource for you and your students!

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