Remember: A sentence starts with a capital, has spaces between the words and ends with a full stop.
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Nell's noteNell typed a note to Gran, but she forgot the space bar. All the letters ran together in one long line, and Gran could not tell where one word ended. "The gaps help," said Gran, "but how does a sentence start and stop?" So Nell held shift with one little finger and tapped the first letter with her other hand, and out came a capital. At the end she tapped the full stop key right after the last letter. Now her sentence had three parts: a capital to start, spaces between the words, and a full stop to end. Then Toffee the puppy stepped on the keys. "That is not a sentence yet!" laughed Nell.
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Why could Gran not read Nell's note?
the letters were too bigNell typed too slowlyNell forgot the space bar
2
A capital letter ends a sentence.
TrueFalse
3
Number how Nell types a sentence.
Tap the first letter with the other hand
Tap the full stop right after the last letter
Hold shift with a little finger
Type the words, a space after each
Capital, spaces, full stop
A capital to start, spaces between, a full stop to end.
4
The blank blue keys are held down to make a capital letter. What are they called?
entershiftbackspace
5
A sentence starts with a letter.
silentcapitalsmall
6
The long blue key makes a gap between words.
TrueFalse
7
Which one is a whole sentence, ready to send to Gran?
we went to the parkWe went to the park.Wewenttothepark.
8
Join each part of a sentence to its place on the path.
1capital letter
2spaces
3full stop
Astepping stones
Bthe start flag
Cthe finish line
9
After a full stop, tap the space bar once and begin the next sentence with a capital.
TrueFalse
10
Nell typed the dog ran. What should she fix?
take away the spacestake away the full stopmake the first letter a capital
Copy and write
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Copy it. We went to the park.
12
Write a sentence about a puppy. Start with a capital, leave spaces and end with a full stop.
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Answer key · Set A
Typing a sentence
1Nell forgot the space bar All the letters ran together in one long line, because Nell forgot the space bar.
2False A capital letter starts a sentence. A full stop ends it.
32, 4, 1, 3 Shift and a letter make the capital, then the words with spaces, then the full stop to finish.
4shift Shift is held down with a little finger while the other hand taps the letter.
5capital A capital letter tells the reader that a new sentence starts here.
6True The long key is the space bar. Tap it once after each word.
7We went to the park. It starts with a capital, has spaces between the words and ends with a full stop.
81-B, 2-A, 3-C The capital is the start flag, the spaces are stepping stones, and the full stop is the finish line.
9True Nell tapped the space bar once after the full stop, and then began again with a capital.
10make the first letter a capital The sentence has spaces and a full stop already. It still needs a capital T at the start.
12Your own words: a grown-up reads it.
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