What Kind of Sentence? Worksheet
With this What Kind of Sentence? Worksheet, 3rd Grade students add the missing end mark and label each sentence as a statement, question, command, or exclamation. An answer key is included, so practice is quick to check.
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Description
Every sentence a child writes does one of four jobs: it tells, it asks, it commands, or it exclaims. Learning to hear that difference — and to mark it with the right end punctuation — is one of the biggest steps a third grader takes toward clear writing. This What Kind of Sentence? Worksheet gives students focused practice naming statements, questions, commands, and exclamations, and choosing the period, question mark, or exclamation point that each one needs.
On this printable types of sentences worksheet, students read six sentences that are missing their end marks. For each one they write the correct punctuation in the box, then write the kind of sentence on the line, choosing from a word bank of command, exclamation, question, and statement. A second section asks students to compose their own question and their own exclamation, so they move from recognizing sentence types to producing them. Use it during a grammar mini-lesson, as morning work, in a literacy center, or as a quick check before a unit test.
What’s Included
- One printable worksheet page with six sentences to punctuate and classify
- A word bank of the four sentence types: command, exclamation, question, and statement
- A write-your-own section for an original question and an original exclamation
- A complete answer key
Why It Helps Kids
First, it makes the end mark and the sentence type one decision instead of two, so students learn that punctuation carries meaning rather than being an afterthought. Second, the word bank keeps the academic vocabulary in front of the class, which supports readers who are still building that language. Third, the write-your-own section turns recognition into production — the skill that actually shows up in a student’s own paragraphs and on a state writing assessment.
Teacher and Parent Ideas
Ask students to read each sentence aloud with the right voice before they write anything, since a question and an exclamation sound different long before they look different. Challenge early finishers to rewrite a statement from the page as a question, or a command as an exclamation. At home, hunt for all four sentence types in a favorite picture book and tally what you find. Because the What Kind of Sentence? Worksheet comes with an answer key, checking the work takes seconds.
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