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Room at the Table: How a Story Ends

Read a story about too few chairs at a family birthday dinner, study how the ending gives closure, then write closing sentences.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toW.3.3.d

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1 Common Core standard
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9 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students explain how a story ending wraps up the problem and shows what a character learned.
Students sort endings that give closure from endings that do not.
Students write closing sentences for a story about a family event.

How to use

Read the story aloud and ask students how they know it is over. Students answer the questions, then write their own ending sentences about a family get-together.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

W.3.3.d

Give a narrative a sense of closure.

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Room at the Table: How a Story Ends

See how an ending solves the problem and looks back.

Read the story

Read the story. Think about the problem and how the last paragraph finishes the story.

Room at the Table

1Every spring, Nana Grace invited the whole family to her house for her birthday dinner. This year, she asked Kwame to set the table. Kwame counted plates, forks and napkins for twelve people.

2Then he counted the chairs. There were only ten. Two people would have nowhere to sit! Kwame checked the porch and the bedrooms, but he could not find any more chairs.

3Kwame's little cousin Esi tugged his sleeve. "What about the piano bench?" she asked. Kwame grinned. The bench was long enough for two. Together they slid it up to the end of the table.

4When the doorbell rang, cousins, aunts and uncles crowded inside. Everyone found a seat. Esi and Kwame shared the piano bench, and Nana Grace sat at the head of the table.

5After dinner, Nana Grace blew out her candles. "The best seat at this table," she said, looking at the bench, "belongs to my two problem solvers." Kwame and Esi bumped elbows and laughed. Next year, Kwame decided, he would count the chairs first.

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