Citing text evidence and R.A.C.E

Citing text evidence and R.A.C.E

​Answering Written Response Questions

Using R.A.C.E. to write great answers!

​Great answers...

*Use middle school level language by restating the question

*Provide evidence to support the answer.

*Use sentence frames.

*Are complete sentences.

*Are specific.

*Put evidence from the text in quotation marks.

*Use small, specific pieces of text (1-2 senteces).

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​Good Sentences:

• Start with a capital letter, proper nouns are capitalized, and I is capitalized.

• Express a complete thought.

• End with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.

• Have no spelling errors.

• Do not use “text talk”.

​When you answer a written response, you need to:

• Restate the question

• Answer the question (s) fully

• Cite text evidence to support your answer

• Explain how your evidence supports your answer

• R.A.C.E.

​Restate

Use part of the question to start your answer.

​Answer

• Answer the question in your restatement.

Multiple Choice

In your first sentence, you should:

• Cite evidence

• Give a yes or no and stop writing

• Restate part of the question and also begin to answer the question

• Restate the question

​Cite text evidence

• Use information from the text to prove your answer is correct.

• Use a sentence starter!

Multiple Choice

What's the purpose of citing text evidence?

• Use text evidence to prove your answer is incorrect.

• Text evidence shows you read the story.

• Use text evidence to prove your answer is correct.

• You use text evidence so you don't plagiarize

​Explain

• How does your evidence prove your answer?

• Connect your evidence back to the question.

• How would the teacher know you understand the skill?

Multiple Select

Why is important to explain your evidence? (mak sure you choose all reasons)

• It connects your evidence to the skill

• It connects your evidence back to the question

• It provides reasons your evidence answers the question/is correct

• You don't need to explain your evidence

Multiple Choice

to quote (a passage, book, author), especially as an authority--to mention in support, proof, or confirmation

• question

• text

• cite

• respond

Multiple Choice

What are the steps to citing evidence?

• State your idea, explain your reasons, and summarize

• Explain your reasons and cite evidence

• State your idea, cite evidence, and explain 

• Cite evidence and explain the evidence

Multiple Choice

What does analyze mean?

• break down to reveal message

• to correct

• to give an analysis

• to be correct

Multiple Choice

What is a claim?

• an opinion based on evidence

• a main idea

• a detail

• something I want

Multiple Choice

when citing a source you should use

• an exclamation point

• a semi colon or colon

• quotations

• a period at the end of the sentence

​When you include your text evidence to support your answer you must use a transition first. You can't have a hanging quote

Multiple Choice

Which paragraph is written correctly to respond to this question: Why do people feel cell phones should be turned off during dinner?

• People feel cell phones should be turned off during dinner to give people more freedom. "Franchesca had an even happier result when she put away her phone" (Smith 6). This shows that turning cell phones off during meal times made people feel happy and less tied to a device.

• People feel cell phones should be turned off during dinner to give people more freedom. In the text it states, "Franchesca had an even happier result when she put away her phone." This shows that turning cell phones off during meal times made people feel happy and less tied to a device.

• eople feel cell phones should be turned off during dinner to give people more freedom. In the text it states, "Franchesca had an even happier result when she put away her phone" (Smith 6). This shows that turning cell phones off during meal times made people feel happy and less tied to a device.

​Restate & Answer with your inference (answer). [Transitional Phrase], “direct text evidence.” {Transitional Phrase for Elaboration}, then explain more about what you know based on text evidence. 

Open Ended

Tyler overslept and missed his bus. He looked at his alarm clock and it read 8:45 A.M. He was more than 30 minutes late for school. He casually walked to the kitchen and poured himself some cereal. Is Tyler worried about making it to school? (Use R.A.C.E and include evidence from text with transition and quotation marks)