RACES 7th grade upgrades

7th Grade Upgrades to RACES

for answering Text Based Responsess

Multiple Choice

What does the acronym R.A.C.E.S. mean?

• Reach, Answer, Call, Evidence

• Restate, Alter, Cite, Explain

• Redo, All, Cars, Everywhere

• Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain, Summarize

Use Informational Text Strategies.​

Step One:

Read the text(s) carefully

Multiple Choice

Should you highlight key words in the passage and mark up the text with notes as you read?

• yes

• no

• maybe

Multiple Choice

How do you find the Main/Central Idea of a Text?

• guess

• only look at headline

• look at headline, read, make inferences

• you don't need to find the main idea

Step 2 Read the Prompt Carefully

Look for key words

Explain

Compare

Both

Contrast

Multiple Choice

What is a Writing Prompt?

• A journal entry

• Directions telling you what and how to write

• A paragraph

Multiple Choice

What should you do when you have to complete a Writing Prompt?

• Read and Analyze the prompt

• Read and start writing my response

• Ask my teacher for help

Multiple Choice

How do you ANALYZE a Writing Prompt?

• Ask the teacher to explain the directions

• Make your best guess at what to write about

• Select your own topic from the words in the directions

• Find the VERBS and define them (Action words)

Step 3: Plan Your Response

Take notes, highlight or copy evidence you plan to use

it says

Sum
it upl Summarize the main idea. Repeat your answer another way. Make connections to the source, personal, or world.

Writing a Text Dependent Response: R+A

1.Start with a HOOK

2.R: Restate the question AND name the Author and Title you are writing about

3. Add a 1-2 sentence Summary of the text

4. Answer the question with a MAIN IDEA answer.

Remember: the person reading your response shouldn’t have
to have read the question or the passage you’re writing about

Multiple Choice

What is a hook (in an essay)?

• A hook is a musical instrument.
• A hook is a type of fishing tool.
• A hook is a type of hairstyle.
• A hook is a sentence or phrase that grabs the reader's attention.

Cite Evidence

1. Find clues in the textto support your answer

2. COPY THE TEXT Evidence EXACTLY, with quotation marks

3. OR Restate IN YOUR OWN WORDS (paraphrase)

Multiple Choice

What is text evidence?

• My opinion after reading.

• Proof in the article.

• A word for word quote from the article/story

• A made-up quote I add to my answer.

Multiple Choice

Citing a source means...

• you use someone else's ideas and give them credit

• taking something from a book

• using a quote

• quoting a book so that you sound smarter

Multiple Choice

What does every quote need to have?

• Two sentences.

• Quotation marks

• A capital letter.

• Long words that make it sound complex.

If you want to skip parts of a too long quote, use
ellipses…

If there’s a word missing, use [ ]

If you are quoting lines of poetry, be sure to
indicate line endings with a “/”

To quote a quote in the story:

◦ Start with a “to show you are copying from the book.
◦ Add a ‘single quote’ around what is in quote marks in the
text

◦ End with” to show your quote is finished.

After C comes E: Explain

1. Explain, in your own words

WHY and HOW your
evidence supports your
thesis or PROVES your
answer is correct

2. Your explanation should

be longer than the cited
evidence.

Multiple Choice

What step comes after citing text evidence?

• Explain how the textual evidence supports the answer.

• Check for unclear pronouns.

• Another piece of evidence.

• My answer.

Multiple Choice

You would use this phrase for which part of RACE -

"This quote demonstrates..."

• Restate

• Answer

• Cite

• Explain

Multiple Choice

Which sentence starter is appropriate when you're explaining your evidence?

• This means...

• The author states...

• The author points out...

• In conclusion...

On page _____, it says “________________,”

The author writes, “___________________,”

In chapter _____, the author says, “__________________,”

When _____________ says, “_____________,”

The article explains, “_________________,”

Line ______ of the poem says, “_________________,”

When ________________ says, “_____________,”

Explain All Evidence

Be sure to write more of your own words than the quote.

Make sure you clearly reference the prompt in your explanation.

Multiple Choice

Another word for explanation is:

• Support

• Research

• Cite

• Claim

Summarize/Conclusion

1. Summarize by Restating the question & answer In Different Words

2. Review the Evidence briefly

3. Give the reader something to think about (your opinion, a question, echo the hook, etc.)

Multiple Choice

What is a conclusion?

• connecting the explanation and the evidence back to the point

• the tabbed space that starts a new paragraph

• the end of an essay that brings the writing to a close

Fill in the Blanks

What writing strategy has this slideshow reviewed?