Strategies: RACE and The Break it Down Method

Read the text and answer the question.

....In the article it states that "Girls have the tendency to study more than boys" and that "studies also show that although girls study more than boys, boys are so much smarter at Math than the girls."

What part of the RACE strategy is this an example of?

• Restate

• Answer

• Cite

• Explain

How do you know that someone is citing evidence?

• Quotation Marks

• Question Marks

• Exclamation Marks

• Parenthesis

How would you restate the question, "How does the author create a feeling of sympathy?"

• Did you ever wonder how an author creates sympathy?
• The author of this text creates a feeling of sympathy by...
• Sometimes authors create sympathy
• Sympathy is a feeling that authors can create

Why is it important to use a writing strategy like RACE?

• To organize your thoughts so people can easily understand your point
• To follow procedures
• To avoid creative writing
• So that you don't have to do research

Explaining your answer means ....

• Adding your thoughts to what the answer means
• Adding your thoughts about the text
• Adding another sentence to make the answer long enough

Birdseed costs $1.25 per pound. How much does 6 pounds of birdseed costs?

• $4.75

• $6.85

• $7. 50

• $8.75

A stadium has 8, 436 seats that are divided into 12 different sections. Each sections the same number of seats. How many seats are in each of the 12 sections?

• 703

• 74

• 704

• 73

One bag of carrots costs $3. How many bags of carrots can you buy for $18?

• 10
• 12
• 6

Tucker lost fewer than 9 points. Which inequality represents the situation? 

• p > 9
• p < 9
• p ≥ 9
• p ≤ 9

It takes Kali eight minutes to sweep a porch. Shawna can sweep the same porch in 11 minutes. If they worked together how long would it take them?

• 4.63 minutes

• 8 minutes

• 5.34 hours

• 6 minutes