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RACE Strategy Sentence Building
Use RACE to answer reading questions in complete sentences: Restate the question, Answer it, Cite evidence from the passage, and Explain how the evidence supports your answer. Read the passage, then complete each task.
At Cedar Creek Wildlife Sanctuary, Gabriela and Mateo volunteered at the turtle pond. Their job was to guide visitors along a path and keep the area calm. A young turtle named Pebble had recently arrived after being rescued from a storm drain. She was healthy, but she often hid beneath a flat rock when the pond grew noisy.
One Saturday, a group of visitors hurried toward the pond, talking loudly. Gabriela raised a hand and asked them to walk slowly and use quiet voices. Mateo pointed out a sign explaining that sudden noise could frighten the turtles. The visitors lowered their voices and waited behind the wooden rail.
After a few minutes, Pebble poked her head from beneath the rock. She paddled across the shallow water and climbed onto a sunny log. The visitors watched without shouting. Before leaving, one visitor said, “Waiting quietly helped us see her.” Gabriela smiled. The volunteers had not forced Pebble to appear; they had made the pond feel safe enough for her to come out on her own.
Recognize the RACE moves
Use details from “The Quietest Visitor” to identify the parts of a strong response.
1.Which RACE move uses a detail or quotation from the passage to support an answer?
- Restate
- Answer
- Cite
- Explain
2.In RACE, the letter E means __________. Write the word and briefly describe what this move does.
3.Read this response: “Pebble came out because the visitors became quiet. The passage says the visitors ‘lowered their voices and waited behind the wooden rail.’ This suggests that the calmer pond helped Pebble feel safe.” Which sentence is the cited evidence?
4.Which sentence explains why the evidence supports the answer in the sample response above?
- “Pebble came out because the visitors became quiet.”
- “The passage says the visitors ‘lowered their voices and waited behind the wooden rail.’”
- “This suggests that the calmer pond helped Pebble feel safe.”
Build a response
Answer each question with the passage. Make every sentence do a job: restate, answer, cite, or explain.
5.Why did Gabriela ask the visitors to walk slowly and use quiet voices? Write a complete sentence that restates and answers the question.
6.Find one piece of evidence showing that Pebble was bothered by noise or that the visitors changed their behavior. Copy a short phrase from the passage.
7.Explain how waiting quietly helped the visitors see Pebble. Use a detail from the passage to support your explanation.
8.Choose the strongest explanation for this evidence: “After a few minutes, Pebble poked her head from beneath the rock.”
- This shows that Pebble was a turtle.
- This shows that Pebble eventually felt safe enough to leave her hiding place.
- This shows that the visitors arrived on Saturday.
9.Write a full RACE response to this question: What did Gabriela and Mateo do to help Pebble feel safe? Include a restated answer, one passage detail as evidence, and an explanation.
10.A student writes, “The visitors were quiet. Pebble came out.” Revise these ideas into one stronger RACE-style response that answers why Pebble came out and explains the connection.
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