CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.3e

ELA7th GradeText Types and Purposes

The Standard

Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students write a conclusion that grows naturally from the events and conflict in a narrative. They also show what the narrator or character understands, feels, or carries forward.
What Mastery Looks Like: The ending fits the characters, conflict, and events already presented. It closes the narrative while showing a clear realization, change, or lasting effect.
Common Misconceptions: Students may add a surprise that has no support in the story. They may simply repeat earlier events or end with “The End” without showing what changed. Some introduce a new conflict instead of closing the existing one.
How to Assess It: Give students a short narrative that stops after the climax. Ask them to write a three-sentence ending that resolves the event and shows what the narrator learned or realized.

Lesson moves

Give groups plot events on cards, then have them arrange the cards and write an ending that fits the sequence.
Ask students to write: “How is the narrator different at the end, and which event caused that change?”
Play Ending Match by having pairs connect short narrative summaries with suitable conclusions and explain each match.
Read the ending of a memoir excerpt, then identify how the writer connects the experience to a later belief or choice.

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