South Dakota ELA 6.W.3.e
The Standard
- 6.W.3
- Write narratives and other creative texts (e.g. poetry, graphic stories, digital compositions, memoirs) to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Provide a conclusion that follows from and/or reflects the narrated experiences or event (when appropriate to the genre).
South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students end a narrative by showing what happened after the key event or what the narrator now understands. The last lines need to fit the events and the kind of story they wrote.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can bring back an earlier detail and show a believable result or reflection. The ending feels finished without adding a new problem or a forced moral.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may stop right after the big event or add “The End” without showing its effect. Others introduce a new problem or state a lesson the character has not learned.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: “I forgot my lines onstage, but my friend whispered the first word. I finished the scene.” Write two ending sentences showing what happened next or what the narrator thought.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs index cards showing a lost library book, its discovery, and an apology; have them arrange the cards and add a fitting ending.
Ask, “After a character apologizes for losing a library book, what could the last line show?” Have students write and explain one ending.
Play Ending Match with story and ending cards about a missed bus, a broken model, and a surprise visit; have groups match and justify.
Have students write the last two sentences of a journal entry about a plan that changed, naming the outcome or their reaction.
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Related Standards
- 7.W.3.e
Provide a conclusion that follows from and/or reflects on the narrated experiences or events (when appropriate to genre).
- 8.W.3.e
Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events (when appropriate to genre).
- 5.W.3.e
Provide a conclusion that follows the narrated experiences or events (when appropriate to the genre).
- 4.W.3.e
Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events (when appropriate to the genre).
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