Georgia 1.L.GC.2.b
The Standard
Use a variety of simple sentences (including a variety of sentence types) to develop clarity in written texts. (C)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Language (L) · Grammar Conventions
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students write complete thoughts using statements, questions, commands, and exclamations. They select sentence types and ending punctuation that make their meaning clear.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students write complete sentences that clearly tell, ask, command, or show strong feeling. They choose punctuation that matches each sentence type and use different types within a short text.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think any group of words with a capital letter and punctuation is a sentence. They may confuse questions, commands, and exclamations or use an exclamation point for every strong feeling.
How to Assess It
- Give students a picture of a child walking a dog. Ask them to write one statement, one question, and one exclamation about the picture, using correct capitals and punctuation.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs word cards and punctuation cards, then have them build a statement, question, command, and exclamation.
Show a playground picture and ask students to write four sentences, each with a different purpose.
Play Sentence Sort by having students place sentence cards under statement, question, command, or exclamation labels.
Create classroom signs that give commands, ask questions, share facts, or express excitement for real readers.
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