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Lesson Plan

The Period

Familiarize your young scholars with declarative and imperative sentences using this simple English lesson. Students will love learning about periods through a series of sentence-writing exercises.
Grade:
Third Grade
Subjects:
English Language Arts
Grammar and Mechanics
Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
View aligned standards
L.3.1.i

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to identify and distinguish between declarative and imperative sentences.

Introduction

(15 minutes)
  • Have the students bring papers and pencils to an open area.
  • Tell them to place their supplies on the floor next to them.
  • Tell the students that today's lesson will be about sentences that end with a period.
  • Explain that when a period is placed at the end of a sentence, the sentence is either declarative (makes a statement) or imperative (gives a command).
  • Give examples of each. I like cotton candy. is a declarative sentence you could share, and Close the door behind you. is an imperative sentence.