
So it goes without saying that when teachers, regardless of content area, give students a short response or free response question, we expect a minimum paragraph response. One sentence is not going to hack it!
Teachers worldwide have struggled with getting students to do more than a one-sentence answer for our questions that required some sort of insight. With that said, teachers also expected depth in the responses. Not just some half-baked, “let me just jot an idea down” on a paper kind of answer. That has not happened.
Likewise, I’m sure students have been frustrated in giving the teacher exactly the quality of work they need and therefore getting the good grades they deserve.

It is with this in mind that teachers have realized that the R.A.C.E Writing strategy (or as I call it The Writing Mantra) works…
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