Question Marks and Exclamation Marks

Year 1 EnglishGrammar and Punctuation3 pages

About this worksheet

The Punctuation Post Office has dropped the mail. On this three-page Year 1 sheet, pupils read twelve short sentences aloud and sort them into three bags: full stop, question mark or exclamation mark. The sentences include Where is dad, Look out and I have a pen, four for each bag. Under Tricky Mail, pupils say which was hardest to place and write one new sentence for each bag. The key explains why What a big bug is an exclamation. It covers England National Curriculum punctuation.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œBeginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation markโ€

Pupils choose between the three end marks for all twelve sentences, then punctuate three of their own in question 2.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œUse the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 in discussing their writing.โ€

The three bags are labelled full stop, question mark and exclamation mark, and question 1 asks pupils to use those terms.

What's inside this worksheet

Punctuation Post Office

Twelve sentences with no end mark, such as Is it big, Stop it and We are happy.

Sorting Bags

Three columns headed Full Stop, Question Mark and Exclamation Mark.

Tricky Mail

Pupils explain the hardest sentence to sort and write one new sentence for each bag.

How teachers use it

Read it out loud

Say each sentence in the voice it needs before pupils sort. Look out and Wow sound very different from I can run.

Card sort

Cut out the twelve sentences and let pairs post them into three real bags.

Talk about What

Use question 1 to talk about What a big bug, which starts like a question but is not one.

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