Asking or Telling? Worksheets for 1st Grade

What your child practices

Practice Asking or Telling with 6 worksheets for 1st grade (Grade 1 in Canada), 59 questions in all. Young learners pick up language rules by seeing many short examples, so each page keeps the directions simple and the examples close to everyday speech. It opens with a guided Learn and Practice page, moves on to a practice sheet and a review test, then finishes with two quick quizzes and a mixed review. Each sheet supports Common Core L.1.1j, covering using grammar correctly in writing and speaking. It also touches L.1.2b, capital letters, punctuation and spelling. In Canada it matches the BC curriculum for Grade 1. Answer keys sit on page 2 of each PDF, so checking takes seconds. New to the idea? Watch the Asking or Telling video lesson, then print a sheet while it is fresh.

Tips for parents

• Read each direction aloud. At this age the skill matters more than reading the instructions.
• Have your child find one example of Asking or Telling in a book you are already reading together.
• Work one sheet a day and check it straight away with the answer key on page 2.