RACES Writing Strategy Worksheets
- 23 pages
- 3rd, 4th, 5th
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About this resource
Ask a student to answer a question about a story and the answer often arrives in one rushed sentence. The RACES strategy gives the answer a shape: Restate the question, Answer it, Cite words from the text, Explain how they prove it, Sum up. This is a set of RACES writing strategy worksheets for 3rd through 5th grade that walks a student through those five parts with a guide, an organizer, sentence starters, three short stories and a cut-and-glue sort.
EVERYTHING INSIDE (23 pages)
- 12 student pages
- 1 RACES guide: the five parts in five big boxes, one short instruction each
- 1 blank organizer for any question, and 1 sentence-starter bank (15 starters, 3 for each part)
- 3 short stories (3 to 5 sentences each, original to this file), each with a question, a planning page and a lined writing page
- 1 cut-and-glue sort: 5 sentence strips to cut out and glue in R-A-C-E-S order, plus 1 glue page
- 1 self-check: five boxes to check, two lines to say what went well and what to fix
- 1 log, 1 class grid (15 students), 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 family note with three ways to help at home, 1 phrase bank of 15 starters
- 1 binder cover and 6 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
- Start Here and terms of use
Built For The Student Holding The Page
A "My name" line, one short instruction on every page, big letters for R, A, C, E and S, and plenty of room to write. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult, and nothing is scored. The sort needs five cuts, and the pieces touch edge to edge.
Type In, Or Print
The name and date lines, every ruled line, the log, class grid and family note are type-in fields in any PDF reader, so you can type a question or a starter onto a page before you print. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.
Who This Is For
3rd through 5th grade classrooms, resource rooms, writing centers, small groups and tutors who want a clear routine for short written answers. Your district's own writing expectations decide what counts as a complete answer.
What This Is, And What It Is Not
Practice pages for the RACES steps, with the record-keeping around them. There is no scoring and no rubric, and it is not a test, a screener or a clinical tool. It makes no claim about any student's grade level or rate of progress, and there is no IEP goal language anywhere in the file.
