| The students have been learning to use RACE as a strategy to help with
answering open-ended questions. Each month they will answer an open-ended
question using this strategy. The strategy has 4 parts:
R - Restate the question in a complete sentence. Example: If you could meet
someone famous, who would it be? The students will restate by saying, If I
could meet someone famous, it would be my favorite athlete (movie star etc.)
A - Answer. Students should answer each bullet and together should have at
least three details.
C - Connection. Students should make a connection (text to self, text to
text, or text to world) to the topic and tell how it relates.
E - Ending. Students wrap up their paragraph with an ending sentence
restating the main idea. Example: As you can see, if I got to meet a famous
person, it would be very special to me.
The following is an example of an open-ended question that was answered
using RACE.
Prompt: Playing games can be a lot of fun. If you could play a game all day
what would you play?
RESTATE: If I could play a game all day, I would play a game that I really
liked.
ANSWER (with 3 details): I would play my favorite game, kickball. I like
kickball because it’s a game I get to play with my friends. It’s almost like
soccer and baseball combined, and those are my two favorite sports! Another
reason why I would play kickball all day is that I play it all of the time
during recess, so I have a lot of practice and I’m really able to play the
game well.
Connection: This reminds me of a time when I went to see a Major League
Soccer game. I am reminded of this experience because as I watched the
soccer players run around the field and have fun, I realized that it must be
really great to be a professional sports player. Professional sports players
are able to play their favorite game all day, everyday!
Ending: As you can see, playing a game all day would be a lot of fun. If I
had the chance to play a game all day, it would definitely be soccer!
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