Sentences and End Marks

Complete sentences, the four kinds, and . ? !

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 15

A complete sentence tells a whole idea: who or what, and what happens. The frog can swim. That's complete!
The big red is not complete. The big red what? What happened? It's missing part of the idea.
There are four kinds of sentences. A telling sentence ends with a period. An asking sentence ends with a question mark.
A sentence with strong feeling ends with an exclamation mark. A command tells someone what to do, and ends with a period.
Every sentence starts with a capital letter, and ends with an end mark.

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:

1.L.GC.2.a — Distinguish between complete and incomplete simple sentences, and identify sentence type (i.e., declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory). (I)
1.L.GC.2.b — Use a variety of simple sentences (including a variety of sentence types) to develop clarity in written texts. (C)
1.L.GC.1.13 — Use periods, exclamation marks, and question marks at the end of sentences. (Continue)