Matching Telling Sentences Worksheet

A telling sentence does two things at once: it tells the reader something, and it ends with a period. This matching telling sentences worksheet gives first graders practice with both halves of that rule on a single page. Students read five telling sentences, decide which place each one is really about, and draw a line to the matching word. Then they finish five more telling sentences by writing the missing word and adding the period themselves, so the end mark stops being something the teacher supplies and becomes part of what the child writes.

Part A is a five-pair match: the word column holds pool, campfire, school, garden and beach, and the sentence column is scrambled so no answer can be found by position. Part B prints five sentences with the last word missing and no end mark at all, each on a wide first grade writing line. Use this 1st grade sentences worksheet as guided practice after a mini-lesson on sentence types, as morning work, or as a quick check before moving on to asking sentences. A full answer key on the second page shows every match line and every completed sentence, period included.

What’s Included

• One printable page with two activities on telling sentences
• Part A: five telling sentences matched to five place words, scrambled so answers cannot be guessed by position
• Part B: five sentences to finish with the missing word and the missing period
• A full answer key on the final page
• Original construction-paper collage artwork of a garden bean vine

Three Reasons This Helps Kids

• Matching a sentence to its subject forces careful reading of the whole sentence, not just the first word.
• Writing the period rather than circling it builds the habit that ends every telling sentence.
• The five sentences use everyday places, so struggling readers meet the punctuation rule without a vocabulary hurdle.

Teacher and Parent Ideas

• Read each Part A sentence aloud with a flat telling voice, then read it again as a question so students hear why the end mark changes.
• Have students turn one Part B sentence into an asking sentence and swap the period for a question mark.
• Ask each child to write a sixth telling sentence about a place of their own on the back of the page.
• Send this matching telling sentences worksheet home and have families hunt for telling sentences in a bedtime story.

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