Kentucky Reading and Writing L.1.1.h
The Standard
- L.1.1
- When writing or speaking, demonstrate appropriate use of:
declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Conventions of General American English
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students write sentences that tell, ask, give a direction, or show strong feeling in response to a prompt. They choose an end mark that fits each sentence.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a picture of a dog, a student can write one sentence of each kind. They use a period for a statement or calm direction, a question mark for a question, and an exclamation point for strong feeling.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may write “the big dog” as a whole sentence. They may put a question mark after “What a big dog!” because it starts with what, or use an exclamation point for every direction.
How to Assess It
- Show a picture of a dog doing a trick. Ask students to write one sentence that tells, one that asks, one that gives a direction, and one that shows strong feeling.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sentence strips and end-mark cards to build four kinds of sentences about a lost puppy.
Ask students to write four sentences about a rainy day: tell what happened, ask a question, give a direction, and show strong feeling.
Play sentence switch: say “The bus is here,” then have partners change it into a question, a direction, and an excited sentence.
Point to a hallway “Walk” sign, then have students write a question, a statement, and an excited sentence about getting to class.
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Demonstrate appropriate use of verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional and subjunctive mood, while recognizing and correcting inappropri...
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- L.7.1.a
Create sentences using correctly placed clauses and phrases.
- L.K.1.e
complete sentences.
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