Explanatory — Draft the ending

Teacher edition · Grade 8 · Lesson 29 · Road-map project

Writing Book 8 · sheet 68

Answer your own claim, and say what follows from it.

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 claim beside the closing sentence. If the claim was quietly changed along the way, that is the finding.