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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.

Alaska content standards learning standard: L.1.1; L.1.2 · 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 Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, 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: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

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 mark ends this sentence? The sun is hot

    • ?
    • .
    • !

  2. Question 2

    Which one shows a big feeling?

    • Did we do it?
    • We did it.
    • Hooray, we did it!

  3. Question 3

    Which one tells you to do something?

    • The door is open.
    • Is the door open?
    • Please close the door.

  4. Question 4

    Which one is a question?

    • Is it time for lunch?
    • It is time for lunch.
    • Eat your lunch.

  5. Question 5

    Which one is a telling sentence?

    • The bird sings.
    • Sing with the bird.
    • Does the bird sing?

  6. Question 6

    Which sentence starts correctly?

    • The Cat is sleeping.
    • The cat is sleeping.
    • the cat is sleeping.

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