How to avoid confusing statements and questions (First Grade ELA)

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🍎 Statements: A statement tells you something. It's like sharing a fact. It ends with a period (.).
• ❓ Questions: A question asks you something. It's like wanting to know more. It ends with a question mark (?).
• 🗣️ Confusing Statements/Questions: Sometimes, sentences can be a little confusing if you don't pay close attention to the words and the punctuation.
• 💡 Tips for Understanding: Read carefully, look for clue words (who, what, where, when, why, how), and check the end mark.
• ✍️ Example: "The dog is brown." (Statement) vs. "Is the dog brown?" (Question)

Practice Quiz

1. Which of these is a statement?
   1. Is the cat sleeping?
   2. The cat is sleeping.
   3. Sleeping cat?
   4. Cat!
2. Which of these is a question?
   1. The bird is singing.
   2. Singing bird.
   3. Is the bird singing?
   4. Bird!
3. What punctuation mark usually ends a question?
   1. Period (.)
   2. Exclamation point (!)
   3. Question mark (?)
   4. Comma (,)
4. Which sentence is asking for information?
   1. I like apples.
   2. Apples are red.
   3. Do you like apples?
   4. Apples!
5. Which of these sentences is telling you something?
   1. Where is my toy?
   2. My toy is on the shelf.
   3. Is my toy lost?
   4. Toy?
6. Which sentence is most likely to need an answer?
   1. The sun is shining.
   2. Shine, sun!
   3. Is the sun shining?
   4. Sun.
7. Identify the question: "The book is blue" or "Is the book blue?"
   1. The book is blue
   2. Is the book blue?
   3. Both
   4. Neither