Kinds of Sentences Worksheets for 1st Grade
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Skill: Telling statements, questions, commands, and exclamations apart
Teaching tips and what to try next
Fits first graders who already write simple sentences and know that a sentence ends with a mark. Reading every line aloud with the matching voice, flat, rising, bossy or excited, usually gives the answer away. Follow up with Capital Letters and End Punctuation for capitals and end marks together, or Nouns and Verbs: Sort the Bold Words to look inside the sentence.
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About this worksheet
Sentences do different jobs. Some tell us something, some ask something, some tell us to do something, and some show a strong feeling. First graders learn the names of these four kinds of sentences and how the end mark changes with each one. This first-grade worksheet practices both.
At the top, a short reminder explains each kind in plain words. In Part A, children read eight complete sentences, two of each kind, and write whether each one is a statement, a question, a command, or an exclamation. The sentences use everyday topics like a bus stop, a spilled glass of milk, and washing hands before lunch, and the kinds are mixed so children cannot follow a pattern. In Part B, children read six sentences that are missing their end mark and write a period, a question mark, or an exclamation point in the box. Part B leaves out commands on purpose, because a command can end with either a period or an exclamation point.
How to use it: read each sentence aloud with expression and let your child hear the difference. Your voice goes up at the end of a question and gets louder for an exclamation. Point out that question sentences often start with words like who, where, can, or do, and that commands often start with an action word, like wash or close. Then ask your child to make up one sentence of each kind about their day.
The answer key lists every answer. For more practice, try our Capital Letters and End Punctuation worksheet and our Common and Proper Nouns worksheet.