RACES Paragraphs |Text Evidence Writing | Sentence Starters | Graphic Organizer

RACES writing strategy helps students practice and master evidence-based paragraphs with extended information that shows compare and contrast, proof, additional information, or their own examples. Each step of the RACES writing strategy contains a resource page with sentence starters organized into categories to help students create sentence variety. Examples of PERFECT paragraphs are also included.

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STUDENTS WILL LEARN HOW TO...

♦ Determine different types of question

♦ RESTATE a question into a statement

♦ ANSWER all parts of the question

♦ Include CITE EVIDENCE in writing according to the type

of genre of the text

♦ 5 ways to EXTEND evidence (Compare, Contrast, Prove,

Additional Information, Example/Support)

♦ 4 ways to SUMMARIZE a paragraph (Restate, Summarize, Conclude, Result)

♦ Organize writing using the GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

Also includes EXAMPLES of RACES paragraphs.

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