Informative Essay Review

The R in RACES stands for.....

• Rewrite the author's words

• Restate the prompt as a question

• Recreate the information

• Restate the citation

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The A in RACES stands for......

• Answer the question

• Ask a question

• Always write a lot

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The C in RACES stands for....

• Citations come before evidence

• Cite websites and books you used

• Cite key details and evidence from the text

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

The E in RACES stands for.......

• Explain why you support that side of the argument

• Explain why you are writing about the topic

• Explain how the key details and evidence support your answer

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

The S in RACES stands for......

• Summarize the citations

• Sum it up

• Summarize the evidence

• Sum up the math

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

Use a _______ in the introduction to grab the reader's attention.

• Needle

• Hook

• Idea

• Nail

A thesis should be _____ complete sentence(s).

• 3

• 1

• 2

• 4

• 0

Select ALL transition words below:

• Yesterday

• Also

• Finally

• Well

• However

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Facts are.....

• Provable words you think of

• Proveable pieces of information

• Provable things you think about

• Provable books you've read

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Statistics are.......

• Numerical facts

• Ideas

• Facts

• Numbers