English / Year 1 / Language / Text structure and organisation

Curriculum content descriptions

Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands (ACELA1449)

Elaborations
  • using intonation and pauses in response to punctuation when reading
  • reading texts and identifying different sentence-level punctuation
  • writing different types of sentences, for example statements and questions, and discussing appropriate punctuation
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Punctuation,  Capitalisation

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Syllabus bites: types of sentences

A web page resource with information, teacher guides and activities on types of sentences to support the Australian Curriculum in English K–10. It has detailed activities, links to resources and quizzes.