Narrative Writing Mini-Lessons: Good Endings Unit with Hands-On Activities

Description

Teach students to write endings that stick. This narrative writing unit includes lesson plans, anchor charts, and activities where students study mentor texts and learn different types of endings.

Your writing lesson plans are done! In this unit, students will read books with great endings and discuss what makes them great, understand different types of endings, revise writing to improve the endings, and try out good endings in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step plans!

Included in this resource:

• Teacher tips for introducing writing strategies
• Mentor text list for six different types of narrative endings
• Lesson plans for the unit
• A hands-on activity in which students read examples of six different ending types and identify the writing strategy being used in each
• Materials for building an anchor chart to record the hands-on learning
• Which Suits the Story? a handout for matching endings with the tone of the story
• 7 Good endings posters
• Good ending notes: 2 versions – complete and ready to write
• Revise It: revise a boring ending in six ways (sample key included)
• Revise Your Own: a guide to revising your own boring ending
• Try It: a guide to writing better endings
• Good Ending tips – a bookmark sized tip sheet

This resource, once purchased, is licensed to be used in one classroom. Additional classrooms must purchase additional licenses.

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