Explanatory — Draft the ending

Teacher edition · Grade 7 · Lesson 30 · Road-map project

Writing Book 7 · sheet 69

Not a summary. What does your reader do with this now?

2. Your turn

In your notebook: draft the ending for your own piece, double-spaced so there is room to correct.

Below is what a full, correct answer looks like. Children's wording will differ and should — mark the thing this lesson taught, not everything at once.

Read the one sentence you are most sure of.model — accept any answer that does the same job

3. Before you finish

Read the one sentence you are most sure of.

Watch forPut the opening sentence beside the closing one. If they do not speak to each other, the piece has drifted.