RACE practice

Using evidence or clues from the text combined with your schema or reasoning to make predictions or draw deeper meaning is

• quote

• inference

• explicit/literal question

What does schema mean?

• predict

• reasoning and/or prior knowledge

• evidence

Words lifted form the text exactly as they are written by the author to support an answer is

• schema

• quote

• inference

This can be answered using what the text says exactly and clearly

• inference

• schema

• explicit/literal question

• quote

When using the RACE strategy to answer a question, what do you do first?

• give the answer

• begin with "I think the text states. . ."

• restate the question

The second step in the RACE strategy is the most difficult because you have to use quotes.

• True

• False

In citing evidence you usually capitalize the first word in the quote.

• True

• False

When you quote something, you need to do this first. . .

• Begin with quotation marks

• Tell where you found the information

• Begin with a comma

When quoting you can put the information from the text in your own words.

• True

• False

Punctuation is NOT important when quoting.

• True

• False