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Visit the TeacherWeb® videos to learn about the features, modifications, and customizations available on your website. Click here to learn more. Open-Ended Questions small medium large 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! Or, would you like to view and optionally restore one of these previous versions? Password: Forgot your password?

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