What’s on the Four Kinds of Sentence poster
A 4-row table: Type · Job · Ends with · Example.
Every sentence does one of four jobs. The end mark usually gives it away.
- Statement — tells you something — . — The bus is late.
- Question — asks something — ? — Where is the bus?
- Command — tells you to do something — . or ! — Wait here.
- Exclamation — shows strong feeling — ! — What a wait that was!
Commands often hide their subject — 'Wait here' means 'You wait here'.
Questions about the Four Kinds of Sentence poster
- What’s on the Four Kinds of Sentence poster?
- A 4-row table: Type · Job · Ends with · Example. Every sentence does one of four jobs. The end mark usually gives it away. Statement — tells you something — . — The bus is late.; Question — asks something — ? — Where is the bus?; Command — tells you to do something — . or ! — Wait here.; Exclamation — shows strong feeling — ! — What a wait that was!. Commands often hide their subject — 'Wait here' means 'You wait here'.
- Who is the Four Kinds of Sentence poster for?
- Four Kinds of Sentence is filed under 3rd Grade (ages 8–9), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting literacy, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the Four Kinds of Sentence poster?
- Find one of each in a page of their reading book. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Four Kinds of Sentence belongs on the wall where that literacy work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Four Kinds of Sentence?
- Working Out a New Word, Punctuating Speech and Using a Dictionary sit alongside Four Kinds of Sentence in the 3rd Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Working Out a New WordPunctuating SpeechUsing a Dictionary
- Is the Four Kinds of Sentence poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Four Kinds of Sentence downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 3rd Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Four Kinds of Sentence poster print at?
- Four Kinds of Sentence is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Four Kinds of Sentence loses nothing.Printing guide
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