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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.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: Language 1; Language 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 Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, 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: Maine Department of Education

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 a question?

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

  2. Question 2

    Which one shows a big feeling?

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

  3. Question 3

    Which one is a telling sentence?

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

  4. Question 4

    Which one is a telling sentence?

    • We have a pet fish.
    • Feed the fish.
    • Do we have a fish?

  5. Question 5

    Which one shows a big feeling?

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

  6. Question 6

    Which one is a question?

    • Who is at the door?
    • Open the door.
    • Someone is at the door.

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