How to write questions

What is a question?

A question is a type of sentence that asks for information.

What is your name?

Questions always start with a capital letter and end with a question mark.

Can animals talk?

Learn how to write questions with this story about an adventure in a magical rainforest!

Questions are sentences that are asking for information. They always start with a capital letter and end with a question mark.

There are lots of different question words. Each one helps you find out a different kind of information.

There are five common question words that start with the digraph 'wh'.

Question word	Information
who	to find out about a person
what	to find out about a thing or an event
where	to find out about a place
why	to find the reason
when	to find out about a time

There are also other question words that start with different letters.

Question word	Information
how	to find out about the way something happened
can	to find out if something is possible

You can add other words after ‘how’ to make new question phrases.

How far away is the jungle?

How many times have you visited?

Think about what questions you might ask Charlie using the question word 'how'.

For some questions that you ask, you may only want a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer.

Is is cold?

These questions usually begin with verbs.

Think of three questions you could ask Charlie about his trip to the rainforest, starting with these verbs.

Ask a friend or adult to choose an object, but not to tell you what it is.

Write a list of questions you can ask to find out what that object is.