Year 3 what is a sentence? worksheet and PowerPoint

Sentences

A sentence is a group of words that makes sense on its own. It has a verb, starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark.

Examples

• The cat sat on the mat.
• Can you help me?

Key words

sentence

a group of words that makes sense

capital letter

a big letter, such as A

full stop

a dot . at the end of a statement

question mark

a mark ? at the end of a question

exclamation mark

a mark ! for 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 six sentences about your pet or a pet you would like. Check the capital letters and end marks.

Pupil target: I can write a sentence.

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 what is a sentence? PowerPoint.

Where this lesson fits

This is lesson 47 of 53 in the Year 3 SPaG scheme, in the block “Sentences”.

Other lessons in this block

• Different types of sentences

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