The End: Periods and Telling Sentences
About the The End: Periods and Telling Sentences Lesson
Summary
An introductory lesson about statements or telling sentences, and how to use periods.
Objectives
• to introduce the concept of the telling sentence or statement;
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to show how to use proper punctuation at the end of the sentence;
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to test students? knowledge and understanding through appropriate activities.
Suggested Grades
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade
Excerpt
A Sentence is a group of words that makes complete sense. Sentences always begin with a capital letter.
How do sentences end? They always end with a punctuation mark. There are three common kinds of punctuation marks:
? a period;
? a question mark;
? an exclamation point.
The punctuation mark we use to end a sentence depends on what kind of sentence we are writing. Telling sentences always end with a period. Telling sentences are also called statements.
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