Sentence Types
Grade 4
Lesson Title:
Sentence Types
Lesson Overview:
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students to identify declarative and interrogative sentences.
Materials Needed:
PowerPoint Presentation, Handout: Types of Sentences, Signs: Declarative and Interrogative
Instructional Focus Addressed:
Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-ons.
Explicit Instruction (steps):
1. Explain to students that a declarative sentence is a statement and ends with a period.
2. Explain to students that an interrogative sentence asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Modeled Instruction (steps):
1. Think aloud and model how to identify different sentence types.
If I am trying to figure out what kind of sentence I am reading I ask myself, “Does the sentence ask a question
or does the sentence make a statement?”
2. Display the sentence, “Martin Luther King Jr. had a child.”
3. Think aloud and model how to determine if the sentence is declarative or interrogative.
I see this statement ends with a period. So, it is a declarative sentence.
4. Display the sentence, “What is his child’s name?”
5. Think aloud and model how to determine if the sentence is declarative or interrogative.
I see this sentence ends with a question mark and it asks a question. Therefore, it is an interrogative sentence.
Guided Instruction (steps):
1. Tell students that they will now work with a partner to identify sentences as either declarative or
interrogative.
2. Pass out a set of Declarative and Interrogative signs to each partnership.
3. Display the following sentences:
a. His name is Sam. (declarative)
b. Was she younger than Tina? (interrogative)
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c. Did Martin Luther King Jr. have only one child? (interrogative)
d. She was the youngest of five children. (declarative)
e. David is my little brother. (declarative)
f. What was the class like? (interrogative)
g. They loved to tease each other, but they were mostly good. (declarative)
h. Did Amy know her brother was going to be a mechanic? (interrogative)
i. David told his sister he was going to make it big one day. (declarative)
4. Read the sentences one at a time. Give the partnerships time to discuss which type of sentence it is.
On your cue, have students display the sign identifying which type of sentence is displayed. Continue
this process for all of the sentences.
Independent Practice (steps):
1. Distribute and review the handout.
2. Tell students they are going to work on their own now, identifying sentences as either interrogative or
declarative, to complete the handout.
3. Circulate the classroom, re-teaching as needed.
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