Kentucky Reading and Writing C.2.2.f

ELA2nd GradeComposition

The Standard

C.2.2: Compose informative and/or explanatory texts, using writing and digital resources, to establish a topic and provide information about the topic.

Provide a concluding section.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Text Types and Purpose

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students add an ending to a short piece of writing. They use one or two sentences to bring the main idea to a close instead of stopping after the last detail.
What Mastery Looks Like: After writing about why recess should be longer, a student ends with a sentence that returns to that opinion. In a piece about frogs, the ending sums up what the reader learned without adding a new fact.
Common Misconceptions: Some students write “The End” instead of a closing thought. Others add a new reason or fact at the end, or copy their first sentence word for word.
How to Assess It: Show students: “Our class should plant flowers. They would brighten our school. Bees could visit them.” Ask for one closing sentence that returns to the opinion without adding a new reason.

Lesson moves

Give pairs three sentence strips from a short frog paragraph, then have them write a fourth strip that closes the paragraph.
Read two endings for a paragraph about tag, then ask, “Which one wraps up the main idea, and which starts a new idea?”
Hand out four short paragraphs and four closing sentences, then have students match each paragraph with its best ending.
Have students write a note asking the principal for more playground balls, then add a final sentence that restates the request.

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