Year 1 English Questions and Exclamations: lesson and practice

By the end of this chapter you will be able to

• Say what each end mark is for: full stop, question mark and exclamation mark
• Put a question mark at the end of a question
• Put an exclamation mark after a word or sentence that shows a strong feeling
• Choose the right end mark for a sentence
• Use question words to ask about a person, a place, a thing, a time or a reason
• Use the words letter, word, sentence, singular, plural and punctuation when we talk about writing

You should already know

• Capital letters at the start and full stops at the end of sentences (Chapter 6)
• Plurals with -s and -es (Chapter 5)
• Tricky words such as the, was, do and said (Chapter 4)

Where this leads

• Stories and fairy tales (Chapter 8)
• Writing my own sentences and stories (Chapter 11)