Kindergarten · Writing · week 33

Three-sentence story push

Write a small story of exactly three sentences with a clear beginning, middle, and end.

A tiny story still needs a beginning, a middle, and an end. This week you write exactly three sentences that do all three jobs.

Sentence one starts the story. Sentence two tells what happens. Sentence three finishes it up.

📋 For the teacher
Teach it (10–15 min):
  • Talk through the three parts out loud first: what starts it, what happens, how it ends.
  • It is fine to draft this together on scratch paper before the neat, final copy.
  • Check each sentence separately for capital, spacing, and ending mark before checking the story as a whole.
  • This three-sentence shape is the seed of every longer story your child will write in later grades.
Talk about it:
  • What is the beginning, middle, and end of your story?
  • Which sentence was hardest to write, and why?
  • Does your story make sense from start to finish?

Mastery looks like: They write a three-sentence story with a clear beginning, middle, and end that makes sense as a whole.

Common stumbles: Three sentences with no real connection to each other; a story that only has a beginning and end, with no middle event; sentence rules slipping on the second or third sentence.

See it visually

Interactive, spoken-aloud tools that show this idea in motion.

Sentence BuilderDrag word tiles into a real sentence, with a capital and end mark.try →
Homework for this lessonType it, write it with a stylus, or print it for pencil & paper.open →
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