Exclamations
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can recognise an exclamation.
Key learning points
- An exclamation is the fourth type of simple sentence.
- An exclamation contains a verb.
- An exclamation expresses strong emotion or surprise.
- An exclamation ends with an exclamation mark.
- An exclamation starts with 'What' or 'How'.
Keywords
Exclamation - a type of simple sentence that expresses strong emotion or surprise
Emotion - feeling or mood
Surprise - not planned
Exclamation mark - a punctuation mark used to express strong emotion
Common misconception
Pupils may confuse commands and exclamations particularly if a command ends in an exclamation mark.
Spend time unpicking the features of both commands and exclamations in order to highlight the difference between the two.
Teacher tip
Discuss intonation when reading different sentence types and encourage pupils to take note of how our voices change. For example, our voice usually goes up at the end of a question.
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which punctuation mark do all questions end with?
Q2.A command....
Q3.Which of these are being verbs?
Q4.Match the sentence to the sentence type:
Q5.What is the verb in this sentence? The puppies are cuddly.
Q6.Tick the imperative verbs.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.How many types of simple sentence are there?
Q2.What do exclamations always start with?
Q3.Match the definition to the simple sentence type.
Q4.An exclamation...
Q5.Identify which of these sentences is a command.
Q6.Identify which of these sentences are exclamations.
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