Writing
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Today, you will write the ending to your story.
Goal:
Goal:
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It is time to finish up the ending of your story.
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It is time to work on writing the end of a story.
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Let's look at an example of a picture and caption for an end of a story. Let's turn this picture and caption into the last paragraph of a story.
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Let's use Traffic Light paragraphs to help us write this ending paragraph. We will use the green light, yellow light, and red light to help us write a great ending paragraph.
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Let's start with a green light sentence. The green light is your topic sentence. That means the first sentence will be describing what your ending paragraph is about. So, let's use the example story to write the first sentence.
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Look at beginning and middle paragraphs of this story. That will also help us write the first sentence in the ending paragraph of this story.
Mamma duck and her babies are swimming in the pond. They are swimming in a nice blue pond. Mamma duck keeps a close eye on her ducklings. Mamma duck loves to take her ducklings for swims. Even though Mamma duck kept a close eye on her ducklings, one is still missing! Mamma Duck was very scared and upset that one of her ducklings was missing. Mamma Duck and her other ducklings looked high and low for the missing duckling. Mamma Duck and her ducklings keep searching for the missing duck, but they still cannot find him. Click image to expand.
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Now that we have seen the beginning and middle of this story, it is time to write the end part of the story. Let's look to see what happens at the end of this story on the planning page.
"The ducks found the missing duck." That is what happens at the end of this story. So we need to come up with a topic sentence, or a green light sentence, describing what is happening at the end of this story. Let's try this sentence: After searching for a very long time, Mamma duck and her ducklings found the missing duck! Yay! We have our topic sentence written for the end part of our story. 
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Now it is time to slow down and write our yellow light sentences. These are your detail sentences. Let's try these sentences:
Mamma duck and her other ducklings found the missing duck in the weeds. The missing duck was scared, but happy to see his family. Yay! We have slowed down and added some nice details to the end of our story. 
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What kind of sentence do we need to write now? It is the last sentence, and it is called the concluding sentence, or the red light sentence. We need to stop, or end, the paragraph now with the concluding sentence. Remember, concluding sentences are very similar to our topic sentences, but just put into different words. Let's try this sentence:
Mamma duck and all of her ducklings were happy they were together again. Yay! We have stopped and written a great concluding sentence.
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Let's look at the beginning, middle, and end of the story all together now. Pay close attention to the last paragraph since that is what you will be working on this week.
Mamma duck and her babies are swimming in the pond. They are swimming in a nice blue pond. Mamma duck keeps a close eye on her ducklings. Mamma duck loves to take her ducklings for swims. Even though Mamma duck kept a close eye on her ducklings, one is still missing! Mamma Duck was very scared and upset that one of her ducklings was missing. Mamma Duck and her other ducklings looked high and low for the missing duckling. Mamma Duck and her ducklings keep searching for the missing duck, but they still cannot find him. After searching for a very long time, Mamma duck and her ducklings found the missing duck! Mamma duck and her other ducklings found the missing duck in the weeds. The missing duck was scared, but happy to see his family. Mamma duck and all of her ducklings were happy they were together again. 
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We did it! We wrote the ending paragraph to our sample story. Before you begin writing your last paragraph, here are some things to remember:
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Time to get busy writing! Good luck.
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