An asking sentence wants something back from the reader. This course teaches students to recognize one, to write one, and to finish it with a question mark instead of a period.
Two things here go past what most practice pages cover. First, students learn that plenty of questions do not begin with a question word at all: “Can you swim?” and “Is the soup hot?” are questions built by moving a word to the front instead. Second, they learn that a question word by itself does not make a question, so a sentence can hold the word “where” and still be a telling sentence.
The course closes with students choosing between a period and a question mark line by line.
What you will learn
- Tell an asking sentence from a telling sentence
- Use question words to start a question
- Build a question by moving a word to the front
- End every asking sentence with a question mark
- Choose between a period and a question mark
A note for parents and teachers: question is the term students will meet in later grades. Asking sentence is used here, with the other name given once.