Black History Month Activities : RACE Strategy Writing Passages and Questions
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These Black History Month Activities are a great way to practice reading comprehension and writing with the RACE Strategy. Get 10 passages and questions that focus on Black History to practice these skills.
Celebrate African American icons including: Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Malcom X, Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou, African Americans in STEM, and more.
RACE Writing Strategy is a structure to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements.
This Download Contains:
- Student resource introducing the RACE strategy
- Example passage and RACE response
- 10 passages and short response questions
- Suggested answers for each passage
- grading guide
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Why use the RACE strategy? This mnemonic device is especially helpful for struggling writers and students with disabilities, but it can also be a helpful scaffold for all students. It teaches students to do what good writers do naturally—restating the question in a complete sentence, answering all parts of the question, citing evidence and fully explaining.
R: Re-state the question
A: Answer all parts of the question
C: Cite the text to provide evidence
E: Explain your citation
These short passages written at approximately a 4th grade reading level. They are short and easy to differentiate for several grade levels! These ready-to-use printables are great for formative assessments or test-prep.
Need Paired Passages?
Paired Passages and Writing with the RACE Strategy, Grades 4-5
Need Texts with Comprehension Questions Too?
Reading Comprehension and Writing with the RACE Strategy Grades 4-6
Need a Wide Range of Texts?
Writing with the RACE Strategy BUNDLE
Need Even More Passages?
A Year of Writing with the RACE Strategy
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