Ending Investigator Lab

This worksheet asks students to read the beginning of two story excerpts and predict the endings. Students must consider tone, clues, dialogue, and plot setup to make thoughtful conclusions. Each story offers enough mystery to spark curiosity while providing strong evidence for logical predictions. Students explain their reasoning to show how the text shaped their thinking.

Predicting endings is a key reading skill that helps students learn to anticipate consequences and narrative direction. It strengthens comprehension by encouraging students to connect early story elements with likely outcomes. Writing predictions teaches students to think like authors, understanding how clues set up future events. This activity also promotes metacognition by asking students to reflect on why their ideas make sense.

This worksheet is part of our Making Predictions Worksheets collection.