South Dakota ELA 1.W.2.c

ELA1st GradeWriting

The Standard

Provide a concluding statement.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students write a last sentence for a short piece of writing. The sentence wraps up the topic instead of adding a new fact.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can read their facts and write an ending that fits them. For a piece about bees, they might end with, 'Bees are busy insects.'
Common Misconceptions: Some students write 'The end' instead of a sentence about the topic. Others add an unrelated idea or stop after their last fact.
How to Assess It: Give students this piece: 'Bees visit flowers. Bees carry pollen from flower to flower.' Ask them to write one last sentence that wraps up the piece without adding a new fact.

Lesson moves

Give pairs paper strips with two facts about frogs and three possible endings, then have them choose and attach the best ending.
Read two facts about frogs and ask, 'Why does Frogs are interesting animals work better as an ending than The end?'
Play ending match: students pair short animal paragraphs with closing sentence cards, then read each completed piece aloud.
Write two facts on a label for a class seedling, then add a final sentence for visitors to read.

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