Help your first grader build her reading comprehension skills by predicting how a story ends.

Open-ended stories provide a creative way to engage clients in a story. Read a short story where the ending in inconclusive or incomplete. Clients may speculate how the story can continue, or how the problem can be solved. Write client answers on a white board and read them out at the end of the activity.

Practice reading the beginning of a story and writing the middle and end.

It's time to put on your creative writing caps! Your students will enjoy writing their own endings to this unfinished story!

Discover famous short stories with surprise endings. This list includes links to read some of the stories online.

**Story Endings updated** It is important for a story ending to not only connect to the story but to also be interesting and memorable. Here are some examples of ways in which authors choose to end their stories. A booklist is also included to help assist you in your mini lessons. Glue the picture cards to popsicle sticks and have your class determine the type of ending used in books read to them or written by them. Students hold up the stick with the ending card and explain their thinking! Contents of Story Endings: 6 ending posters with explanations Book list of suggested book titles for each ending Picture cards for each ending to be glued on to popsicle sticks (black and white and in color) Endings chart for student folder or notebook (black and white and in color) Sample story endings (black and white and in color) Name that Ending! Word cards for story endings (black and white and in color) ***Here are some other products you may be interested in:*** Story Leads Story Endings Story Leads and Story Endings Reading and Writing Workshop Bundle Story Conflicts More Story Elements Story Elements Cooking Up Story Elements "What Should I Write About?" Generating Ideas Genre Study Unit Story Ribbon ***Customer Tip!*** How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase, you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you leave feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you can use to lower the cost of your future purchases. Your feedback is greatly appreciated and helps me create products that benefit your class. Be sure to "Follow me" for store updates and sale information! Look for the green star under my store name and click it. Thanks!

Bestsellers often have surprising and unforgettable endings. Discover how you can do the same with your story!

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Children learn how to write effective endings for their stories without resorting to a "crash landing" as in THE END. Classic literature is explored as students study the development of an excellent conclusion for a narrative, and are shown alternative strategies to building great endings. Lesson...

Here are the principles of story structure that you need to apply to your writing in order to get the ending of your fiction right.

Kiss “The End” goodbye! This activity gets students to practice using more interesting story endings.

From the 2013 Orange Prize-winning author of May We Be Forgiven. Only a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide range of visceral responses. Here is the incredible story of an imprisoned pedophile who is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old suburban coed. As the two reveal--and revel in--their obsessive desires, Homes creates in The End of Alice a novel that is part romance, part horror story, at once unnerving and seductive.