Types of Sentences Posters – Printable Classroom Anchor Charts

Make sentence structure easy to understand with this set of Types of Sentences Posters! Designed to support your ELA lessons, these colorful and engaging sentence types posters break down the different types of sentences with clear explanations and examples. Whether you’re teaching simple, compound, or complex sentences for older students or helping beginning writers recognize the purpose of a sentence—these posters make the perfect classroom reference for young writers.

Differentiated Sentence Types Posters for Primary School Classrooms

This printable poster set includes seven Types of Sentences Posters, each focusing on a specific sentence type:

For upper-grade classrooms, we’ve created the following:

• Simple Sentence – One independent clause
• Compound Sentence – Two independent clauses joined by a conjunction
• Complex Sentence – An independent clause with at least one dependent clause

And for lower-grade classrooms, you’ll find each of the following.

• Statement – A declarative sentence that provides information
• Question – An interrogative sentence that asks for information
• Command – An imperative sentence that gives instructions
• Exclamation – An exclamatory sentence that shows strong emotion

Each poster includes an easy-to-understand definition, an example sentence, and eye-catching visuals to help students grasp sentence structure at a glance.

Download and Print Your Sentence Posters Today

This resource is available as a printable PDF or as a fully editable Google Slides resource file. To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button and select your file. We have also included both full-colour and black-and-white versions of these sentence posters.

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