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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.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 1.2.1.1 · telling, asking and exclaiming sentences and their end marks

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 Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic 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: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

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 shows a big feeling?

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

  2. Question 2

    Which one tells you to do something?

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

  3. Question 3

    Which one is one sentence with two ideas joined?

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

  4. Question 4

    Which one is a telling sentence?

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

  5. Question 5

    Which one shows a big feeling?

    • What a great day!
    • It is a day.
    • What day is it?

  6. Question 6

    Which mark ends this sentence? Do you like pizza

    • !
    • .
    • ?

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