Who, What, Where
About the Who, What, Where Lesson
Summary
An introductory lesson on asking sentences or questions.
Objectives
• to explain the differences between statements and questions;
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to provide examples of sentences that ask questions;
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to introduce a list of words that signal an asking sentence;
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to introduce the question mark and its function.
Suggested Grades
1st Grade
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
Excerpt
A sentence is a group of words that makes complete sense.
Some sentences are called telling sentences, or statements. A telling sentence does just what the name says ? it tells us something. Like most other sentences, telling sentences must end with a period.
Another kind of sentence is an asking sentence, or a question. An asking sentence usually begins with a word that asks a question. Some common asking words are:
who, what, when, where, why, how
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