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1st grade · English Language Arts · Unit 10 of 17

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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.11(D) · 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 Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 10 of 17 in 1st grade English Language Arts, after More Than One and before Word Jobs.

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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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 tells you to do something?

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

  2. Question 2

    Which sentence starts correctly?

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

  3. Question 3

    Which mark ends this sentence? The sun is hot

    • !
    • ?
    • .

  4. Question 4

    Which one tells you to do something?

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

  5. Question 5

    Which one is a telling sentence?

    • Do you have a ball?
    • I have a red ball.
    • Give me the ball.

  6. Question 6

    Which one is a question?

    • Can we go outside?
    • We can go outside.
    • Go outside now.

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