What Teachers are Saying about the RACE Writing Strategy

The RACE Writing Strategy is the best tool I’ve found for teaching writing and it totally transformed my classroom. It’s an easy way to get your students to write in a clear, organized way while citing the text.

My RACE strategy passages and writing prompts have been very popular with teachers. Below you will find what teachers are saying about my RACE Strategy products.

Teachers often tell me that the RACE Strategy is making their kids better writers, that the kids enjoy it, that it’s easy to use, and that it’s helpful for special populations. To sum it up, “it’s just what I needed.”

Students are getting better at writing

• My students STRUGGLED with the RACE writing strategy UNTIL I found this resource! It is GREAT! I love using it to help guide my students to a polished final product. –Skyler
• Great product, I used these and saw an improvement in student responses to text almost immediately. –Rebecca
• Their writing is sooooo much better! Thank you! –Lori
• Super easy to use and the kids are mastering the RACE strategy! –Joanna
• My students benefited from the structure and the organization of this product. I love that you provided multiple texts for the repeated practice that my students need! –Darcie
• Thanks for this great resource. It was very helpful for my students as it is easy to remember. They often use the acronym still to help remember. –Susan
• Loved using this to practice the RACE strategy. We did “I do, we do, you do” in my class and the students showed growth! –Shana

Students are engaged and having fun

• I have your 6th-8th set and have been meaning to grab this one for a while! My students love them – and I love the lack of groans I hear when we do them 🙂 I am sure I will be back for more!! –Ashley
• This is a fabulous resource, especially for my reluctant readers and writers. Thank you! –Mandee
• My students loved this resource for their morning work! The activity is engaging and helped build their stamina with writing using the RACE strategy. –Kathy
• This makes a lot of sense to the kids. –Michelle
• My kids loved this resource! Thank you! –Debi
• The short, high interest passages worked out great. –Kim
• My son is in 4th grade and he is using this as part of his remote learning from home. He really enjoys using one page a day! –Kris

Great for special populations

• Incredible resource. I use this in my self-contained special education class! They love it. –Emily
• I’m so grateful for this tool to reinforce the RACE strategy in a structured way. Many of my students are English Language Learners and struggle with writing strong paragraphs but this has helped them greatly! –Julia
• Great for my EL students!! –Martha
• Awesome resource for my lower level students. They really liked the boxes so they could check off each letter of RACE. –Rebecca
• Great activity for the resource classroom –Kim
• This is perfect to use with my students with disabilities on a weekly basis for writing. High interest passages! –Kelly
• I use this with my RTI students. Great in-depth resource. –Cherhys

It’s easy to use

• This resource made my life so much easier!!!! I used this to build practice with the RACE strategy before our state tests. The kids really enjoyed the topics and began incorporating the strategy! –Melissa
• Very easy to use, and each activity was quick and simple for kids to complete remotely. –Jessica
• I love the ease and convenience of it! –Courtney
• This was the best RACE Strategy packet I have ever used. With each part of RACE being a certain color, I was able to have my students underline their sentences in that color after they wrote it. The reading material was interesting and fun. My students became experts at RACE and it was very easy to teach. –Monique
• I used this for my own kids, because they were struggling in their reading comprehension. It’s one of the best resources out there. –Nicole
• These saved my life when introducing this strategy because the passages are nice and short! –Michelle

Can be used in lots of ways

• Excellent independent practice for students with this concept! –Sarah
• This is great supplement for test preparations. They can be done quickly and show the students exactly what they need to answer the question correctly. –Stephanie
• I use this for my small groups and I had an observation using it and my principal loved it! –Carmella
• These are perfect short passages to review for test-prep! –Chelsi
• Great resource! I enjoyed using it with my students because there are so many passages that I could model some with them and then allow them to try it on their own! Would definitely recommend –Gloria
• This was a great resource to use as I introduced reading and responding to a prompt. It gave my students a guided way to respond to a prompt after reading as it prepares them to respond to more in depth prompts as state testing approaches! It was also great to use with sub plans when I was out- it was easy to understand and model for the sub as well! –Arden
• This was an excellent activity for centers. –Beth
• Engaging passages to practice RACE responding – short and easy to use for quick assessments, homework, writing practice, or morning work –Allison
• Teaching it while in class and having these assignments available for HW was an awesome reinforcer. –Matthew

Teachers also recommend the RACE Strategy for Paired Passages when your students are ready for more rigor.

How have your students responded to the RACE Strategy in your classroom? Let me know in the comments!