Writing Prompts for Grade 2: Concluding with Feelings and Lessons

📚 Writing Prompts for Grade 2: Concluding with Feelings and Lessons

This lesson plan helps students write compelling conclusions by focusing on characters' feelings and the lessons they learn throughout the story. It provides structured writing prompts and activities to enhance their storytelling abilities.

🎯 Objectives

• ✍️ Students will be able to write a concluding paragraph that reflects the character's feelings.
• 🧠 Students will be able to identify and articulate the lesson learned in a story.
• 🌟 Students will be able to use descriptive language to convey emotions.
• 📖 Students will be able to connect the story's events to the character's emotional journey and the final lesson.

📃 Materials

• 📝 Writing paper or notebooks
• 🖍️ Pencils and erasers
• 🌈 Colored markers or crayons (optional)
• 📚 Sample story endings (optional)
• 🖼️ Pictures related to prompts (optional)

☀️ Warm-up (5 mins)

• 🗣️ Discuss feelings: Ask students to name different feelings (happy, sad, angry, scared) and situations that might cause those feelings.
• 🎭 Act it out: Have students act out different emotions to reinforce understanding.
• 📖 Read aloud: Share a very short story and quickly brainstorm possible feelings the character has at the end.

✍️ Main Instruction (25 mins)

Introduction: Explain that good stories have endings that show how the characters feel and what they learned.

• 📖 Example: Read a short story with a clear lesson and a concluding paragraph that reflects the character’s feelings. Discuss both.
• 📝 Guided Writing: Use the following prompts. After each prompt, guide students to consider how the main character might feel at the end of the story and what lesson they might learn.

🌟 Writing Prompts:

• 🐾 Prompt 1: A little lost puppy finally finds its way back home after a big adventure.
• ☔ Prompt 2: A child helps their neighbor carry groceries inside during a rainstorm.
• 🌱 Prompt 3: Two friends argue over a toy but then decide to share.
• 🎂 Prompt 4: A student forgets to study for a test and doesn't do well, but promises to try harder next time.
• 🎨 Prompt 5: A young artist enters a painting competition and doesn't win, but learns to appreciate their own creativity.
• 🤝 Prompt 6: A new student feels lonely at school, but then makes a friend during recess.
• 🌳 Prompt 7: A group of children plant a tree in their schoolyard and watch it grow over time.

Activity Steps for Each Prompt:

1. Briefly discuss the scenario.
2. Ask: "How do you think the main character feels at the end of this story?"
3. Ask: "What lesson do you think the character learned?"
4. Have students write a concluding paragraph that includes the character's feelings and the lesson learned.

✅ Assessment (10 mins)

• 📝 Have students share their concluding paragraphs with the class.
• ⭐ Evaluate their writing based on:
  • ✅ Inclusion of character's feelings
  • ✅ Clear articulation of the lesson learned
  • ✅ Use of descriptive language
• 🌟 Provide feedback and encouragement to each student.