Empower your students to strengthen paragraph writing and master text-based questions and constructed responses through high-interest reading comprehension passages with RACE and RACES writing prompts!

This BUNDLE has everything you need to introduce your students to RACE/RACES paragraph writing and give them ongoing practice with a variety of reading passages and text-based questions.

This resource will give you the option to teach either RACE or RACES!

Teach your students to respond to any text-based question with well written constructed responses that are evidence based!

The following is included in this BUNDLE -

Introductory Lesson:

• PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation: A step-by-step presentation that breaks down each step of this writing strategy.
• Student Guided Notes: These notes are designed to accompany the presentation. Students will take guided notes as you are presenting the lesson.
• Graphic Organizers: Four graphic organizers that will guide your students through every step of the writing strategy with sentence starters!
• A practice non-fiction article: with an example response
• Classroom Posters: Bright & visually appealing posters for your classroom that reinforce this writing strategy! These posters serve as constant reminders of the steps needed to craft strong, evidence-based responses. (Posters come in color & black and white.)
• Teacher Instructions: Instructions and suggestions for the teacher to facilitate the implementation of this lesson.
• A RACE blank writing page: for their final draft
• A RACES blank writing page: for their final draft

Non-fiction reading articles:

1. Artificial Intelligence - read about the benefits and concerns of AI
2. Zoos - read about the pros and cons of zoos
3. Cell Phones - read about the advantages and drawbacks of cell phones in the classroom
4. Homework - read about the advantages and disadvantages of homework
5. Earth Day - read about plastic pollution and how it's affecting our earth
6. School Uniforms - read about the pros and cons of school uniforms
7. Fear and Halloween - read about why people enjoy being scared during the Halloween season
8. The Thanksgiving Turkey - read about how turkey became a Thanksgiving tradition
9. Self-Driving Cars - read about the benefits and concerns of self-driving cars
10. The Debate Over Eating Meat - read about the reasons why some people eat meat and some people choose not to

* Each reading lesson comes with multiple choice questions that reveal a mystery picture and RACE/S writing prompts with scaffolded graphic organizers.

Perfect For:

• enhancing students' ability to write thorough, well-organized responses
• reinforcing text-based evidence and critical thinking
• making claims and providing evidence to support them
• test prep and everyday writing practice

* As I create more reading passages of this type, I will add them to this BUNDLE and you will be able to download them for free if you purchase now :)

*Presentations are available in both PowerPoint and Google Slides! Most information is editable.

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