Performance Objective: Given the Acronym R.A.C.E. student will be able to identify what each letter stands for.
Materials and Resources Wonder Novel, Chromebooks, Google drive Documents.
Step Details/Resources Notes
Pre-Instructional Activities Students are reading the novel Wonder. Students will answer a text dependent comprehension question from the novel using their prior knowledge of how to write answers to text-dependent questions. Question: How was August’s birth both humorous and frightening? Cite evidence from the text to support your response Students will share their answer with a partner using academic discourse sentence frame posted in classroom. Students will answer questions using Google Drive instead of paper, in order to use the highlighting function to show the changes to their answer.
Content Presentation Students will take notes Google Drive instead of paper, in order to use the color text feature to match show the changes to their answer. Google Drive Link
Learner Participation Students will rewrite their answers using the race strategy. Students will share their answer with a partner using academic discourse sentence frame posted in classroom. Call on students to compare and contrast their previous and new answers. Students will answer questions using Google Drive documents and color their code their answers to match their notes on strategy to show where included each element of the RACE strategy Example
Formative Assessment Teacher will post a model answer: Example: August’s birth was both humorous and frightening because there was a farting nurse in the delivery room and because August was born with very serious birth defects that he almost died from. In the chapter “How I came to life” August explained that there was a nurse who kept farting while she was taking care of his mom in the delivery room and it was very funny. He also said, “Mom remembers exactly what the nurse whispered in her ear when the doctor told her I probably wouldn’t live through the night.” This is why August’s birth was both funny and serious. Given a teacher model answer, students will self-assess and reflect on their changes by using a rubric of 1-4, using one point for each element of the RACE strategy that they used correctly. Students will self- evaluate and give themselves a score of 1-4 Students should share tier self-assessment score with their group, and why they gave themselves that score. Students will complete rubric on Google Drive Document, and complete reflection prior to turning in the assignment on Google Classroom.
Follow Through Activities Brainstorm with the class: How do we use the elements of the RACE strategy in math?