Year 3 · SPaG · Sentences
Year 3 different types of sentences worksheet and PowerPoint
To recognise and write statements, questions, commands and exclamations.
Types of sentence
A statement tells you something (full stop). A question asks something (question mark). A command tells someone to do something (full stop or exclamation mark). An exclamation shows a strong feeling and starts with what or how (exclamation mark).
| statement | The sun is hot. |
|---|---|
| question | Is the sun hot? |
| command | Sit down. |
| exclamation | How hot the sun is! |
Examples
- Close the door.
- What a loud noise that was!
Key words
- statement
- tells you something
- question
- asks something
- command
- tells someone what to do
- exclamation
- shows a strong feeling
What is on the worksheet
Every sheet for this lesson has a short teaching box and 12 questions that get gradually harder: 8 fluency questions, then 4 reasoning questions that ask pupils to explain or choose. A writing challenge follows. The questions use the same styles as the key stage 2 grammar and punctuation test (circle, underline, tick, fill the gap, add punctuation, rewrite, explain). They are written for this website, not copied from past papers.
All the answers are on the last page of the same editable Word file. New questions are made every time, so you can print a different sheet for every group or for homework. The same sheet code always gives the same sheet.
Writing challenge: Write two sentences of each type about a visit to the zoo.
Pupil target: I can tell the four types of sentence apart.
The PowerPoint
A 20-slide lesson deck for the same lesson: a starter that revisits earlier learning, key words, an I do and a You do question on each slide with a countdown timer, answers that appear one click at a time, and a challenge. Download the different types of sentences PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 48 of 53 in the Year 3 SPaG scheme, in the block “Sentences”.
Other lessons in this block
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