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RACE Strategy Practice – 6 Passage Worksheets

Six short animal passages end in one question apiece, answered using the R.A.C.E. steps and a reference page of sentence stems.
Grades
Grades 4–5, Elementary
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Updated Oct 11, 2023

Subject
ELA, Reading, Reading Comprehension, Strategies, Writing
Topic
RACE Strategy, Reading Comprehension
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Activities, Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
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This RACE practice set includes 6 worksheets to help students answer text-based, short-answer questions in just 4 simple steps! This text evidence reading strategy is perfect for ELA state testing, reading comprehension, and general text-evidence practice.

Using high-interest topics (all about 6 unique animals!) get your students writing better answers to text-based questions.

What is the R.A.C.E. Strategy?

  • R - Restate keywords from the text

  • A - Answer ALL parts of the question

  • C - Cite Evidence from the text

  • E - Explain your answer and Edit

Ensure that your students understand the RACE writing strategy for open-ended constructed responses using these 6 simple yet highly effective worksheets!

Get 6 non-fiction reading passages and open-ended questions are all about the world's COOLEST ANIMALS! Your students will love reading about these unique creatures and be highly engaged.

  • Each worksheet includes an original nonfiction passage, space to write an answer, and checkboxes for each step of the R.A.C.E. strategy.

100% NO-PREP! Just print and go!

No stress for teachers, helping you do what you do BEST: Teach!!

INCLUDES:

  • 1 student reference sheet all about R.A.C.E. (in B&W or color)

  • 6 practice worksheets with a passage and open-ended questions

⭐ Each question requires students to find text evidence to support their answer.

PERFECT FOR:

  • State Test-Prep

  • Literacy Center Activity

  • Any unit you are teaching about animals

  • 4th, 5th, 6th grades

  • Homework

  • Intervention for struggling learners


FORMATS:

  • Printable worksheets (PDF)

  • EASEL Activity (Digital)


PASSAGE TOPICS:

  • Axolotl

  • Pangolin

  • Narwhal

  • Tasmanian Devil

  • Aye-Aye

  • Sea Monkey

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • CCSS.RI.4.1 — Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
  • CCSS.RI.5.1 — Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text
  • CCSS.RI.6.1 — Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
  • CCSS.RF.4.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

Core concepts

  • Reading comprehension

  • race strategy

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