Sentences do different jobs. Some tell you something, some ask you something. This course is about the first kind, the telling sentence, and about the small dot that marks where it ends.
Students learn what a telling sentence does, how to start it with a capital letter and finish it with a period, and where that period actually belongs when two ideas run together on the same line. That last skill is the one that separates a student who has memorized a rule from one who can use it, because it means deciding where an idea ends rather than following a pattern.
The course finishes with students checking a short piece of writing for missing capital letters and missing periods.
What you will learn
- Tell a sentence that tells something from a sentence that asks something
- Start a telling sentence with a capital letter
- End a telling sentence with a period
- Decide where one telling sentence ends and the next begins
- Check your own writing for missing capital letters and periods
A note for parents and teachers: statement is the term students will meet in later grades. Telling sentence is used here, with the other name given once.