Kindergarten · Writing · week 24

Question sentences end with ?

Recognize and write question sentences, ending them with a question mark instead of a period.

Some sentences ask something instead of telling something. These are questions, and they end with a different mark: a question mark (?).

A telling sentence says "The dog is big." A question sentence asks "Is the dog big?" Same idea, different ending, different job.

📋 For the teacher
Teach it (10–15 min):
  • Ask your child a few real questions out loud and point out that your voice often rises a little at the end.
  • Have your child turn a telling sentence into a question, and back again, to feel the difference.
  • Check that the question mark replaces the period. A question never gets both marks.
  • Keep exploring real questions your child actually wonders about. Curiosity makes this stick.
Talk about it:
  • What is different between a question and a telling sentence?
  • What mark do questions end with?
  • What is a real question you are curious about today?

Mastery looks like: They write question sentences correctly, ending with a question mark, and can tell a question apart from a telling sentence.

Common stumbles: Ending a question with a period out of habit; writing a telling sentence but adding a question mark by mistake; forgetting the question word at the start.

See it visually

Interactive, spoken-aloud tools that show this idea in motion.

Sentence BuilderDrag word tiles into a real sentence, with a capital and end mark.try →Punctuation PowerThe same words as a statement, a question, or a shout — hear it change.try →
Homework for this lessonType it, write it with a stylus, or print it for pencil & paper.open →
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