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1st grade · English Language Arts · Unit 10 of 19

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.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: 1L1; 1L2 · 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 New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 10 of 19 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: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

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?

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

  2. Question 2

    Which one is a question?

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

  3. Question 3

    Which one is a telling sentence?

    • Snow falls in winter.
    • Catch the snow!
    • Does snow fall in winter?

  4. Question 4

    Which one tells you to do something?

    • Wash your hands.
    • Are your hands clean?
    • My hands are clean.

  5. Question 5

    Which one tells you to do something?

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

  6. Question 6

    Which one tells you to do something?

    • Is this the line?
    • The line is long.
    • Line up at the door.

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