1. Reading strategy to increase Literacy: Text Coding
Using R.A.C.E. TO BUILD CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE WRITING

2. Text Coding is the Answer!
Text coding is a reading strategy that will enable students to do the following:
interact meaningfully with printed text.
prepare students for class discussions.
make notes of thinking while reading.
comprehend more deeply what is being read.
engage students in their textbook reading.

3. Why Text Codes?
Whether books or other materials can be marked up or not, it’s important for students to have a useful set of response codes. When addressing difficult text, students need to attack the page, go past the surface, and dig out the meaning with very active strategies.

4. When you read something that makes you say, “yeah, I knew that” or “I predicted that” or “I saw that coming.”
Have students connect to their background knowledge on a key term, idea, or prediction that they made.

5. When you run across something that contradicts what you know or expect
When you run across something that contradicts what you know or expect. When you have a question, need clarification or are unsure
This symbol could be used for a prediction that ends up being false or goes against their background knowledge.
This symbol should denote a student unraveling their current thinking and replacing it with something correct or new.

6. !
When you discover something new, surprising, exciting, or fun that makes you say cool, whoa, yuck, no way, awesome

7. When you read something that seems important, vital, key, memorable, or powerful

8. When the reading really make you see or visualize something

9. TEXT – TO – TEXT When you have a connection between
Make a connection to something else that you have read

10. When you have a connection between
TEXT – TO – SELF
Connect to something that you have personal experience with

11. TEXT – TO – WORLD When you have a connection between
Connect to something that connects to the past or current culture

12. 
If a word gets repeated, seems important, or is unknown

13. Modifying Text Codes for Writing
Fold the white piece of paper into 4.
Watch the video below.
While viewing the video, jot down notes for each square.

14. R.A.C.E. Constructed Response Writing Method
Reword
Restate the question in a declarative sentence.
Answer
Finish the reword by answering the question posed
Cite Evidence or Examples (3)
Use 3 or more pieces of evidence to support the answer given in the reword. Please use (“ “) when citing evidence from the text.
Explain the evidence or examples found
For each piece of evidence you cited, explain how it relates to the answer you provided in the reword.

15. Reference
Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis