Races

How can the RACES strategy help your writing?

Match the following letters of the RACE acronym with what is stands for

• answer the question

• S

• cite evidence from the text

• A

• summarize

• R

• explain evidence

• C

• restate the question or prompt

• E

In the story, The Three Little Pigs, was the third pig smarter than the wolf? Use the RACE writing strategy to answer the writing prompt.

The RACES strategy helps you to write ____ paragraphs.

• Introduction

• Body

• Conclusion

• Summary

The belief that one group of people is better than another group of people, based on their race or skin color

to be unfair to someone because of their race

• activism

• racism

• oppressed

• suffragist

What does the C stand for in RACE/RACECES?

• Conflict

• Climax

• Conclusion

• Cite

After your topic sentence, the next part of the RACES strategy is C. In this part you should...

• Cite (use) the author's name

• Cite (use) your resources

• Cite (use) evidence

• Cite (use) explanations

When writing a short response:

• I will use the RACES strategy

• Just write anything

• I will just copy the text

What does the R stand for in RACES?

• Restate the question

• Restate your opinion

• Really try to write something