Year 2 Statement, Exclamation, Command and Question Sorting Cards

Help your Year 2 pupils identify and distinguish between the four sentence types with this versatile sorting card activity. Children sort a set of sentences into the correct categories — statements, questions, commands and exclamations — building confident recognition of each sentence type in a hands-on, low-prep format.

What’s included

•  27 sorting cards featuring a range of statements, questions, commands and exclamations

Provided as a PDF — print, laminate and reuse year after year

How to use

The cards work across a range of classroom contexts

• Independent activity at a desk or table
• Paired or small group sorting and discussion task
• Whole-class review or revisiting activity
• Early finisher task
• As a pre-assessment before teaching or a consolidation task after

Laminating the cards makes them a durable resource you can return to throughout the year.

Curriculum alignment

This resource directly addresses the Year 2 National Curriculum grammar requirement:
“pupils should be taught to use sentences with different forms: statement, question, exclamation, command”