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1st grade · English Language Arts · Unit 10 of 13

Kinds of Sentences

Tell, ask, command and shout

What your child practices

Knowing a telling sentence from a question, a command and an exclamation, choosing the end mark, and seeing sentences with two ideas joined.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 1.18; 1.32 · telling, asking and exclaiming sentences

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A telling sentence ends with a period.
  2. A question asks something and ends with ?
  3. A command tells you to do something. A big feeling ends with !

Example: Which tells you to do something? “Line up at the door.” or “I like the door.” A command gives a job to do. “Line up” tells you what to do. Answer: Line up at the door.

Kinds of Sentences in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 10 of 13 in 1st grade English Language Arts, after More Than One and before Think It Through.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which one is one sentence with two ideas joined?

    • Like cats.
    • I like dogs.
    • I like dogs and I like cats.

  2. Question 2

    Which one is one sentence with two ideas joined?

    • Warm and cold.
    • It is cold, but I am warm.
    • It is cold.

  3. Question 3

    Which one tells you to do something?

    • The toys are fun.
    • Pick up your toys.
    • Do you have toys?

  4. Question 4

    Which mark ends this sentence? The sun is hot

    • .
    • ?
    • !

  5. Question 5

    Which one is one sentence with two ideas joined?

    • Jump high.
    • I can run.
    • I can run, and I can jump.

  6. Question 6

    Which one shows a big feeling?

    • Wow, that is huge!
    • Is that big?
    • That is big.

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