Citing Text Evidence and R A C E

What does the C stand for in R.A.C.E.?

• Center your answer

• Create a question

• Cite your evidence

• Crush it!

What is the acronym we use to right a successful TDA?

• R.A.C.E.S.

• T.D.A.A.S.

• R.U.N.S.

• W.R.I.T.E.S.

When we provide a piece of evidence from the text, we must always introduce it with __________________.

• the answer

• our name

• nothing

• a sentence starter

Putting ___________________ around the evidence we found in the text shows we are using someone else’s words.

• periods

• commas

• quotation marks

• circles

What punctuation do you need around your text evidence? (Hint – it is someone else’s words!)

• quotation marks

• exclamation points

• hypens

• periods

What does the R stand for in R.A.C.E.?

• Run away from the question

• Reword/Restate the question

• Right or left

• Risk it all by answering the question

What does the A stand for in R.A.C.E.?

• Analyze the question

• Answer the question

• Ask a question

• Again

What does the E stand for in R.A.C.E.?

• Extract the important parts

• Early bird catches the worm

• Excpect another question

• Explain your evidence

How many explanations do we need to write?

• one explanation for each piece of evidence provided

• one explantion for the whole TDA

• We do not need to explain our evidence

• two

What part of using the R.A.C.E. response do you find the most difficult?

• Restating the question

• Answering the question

• Citing information from the text

• Explaining your evidence/answer