Year 4 time adverbials worksheet and PowerPoint

Adverbials of time

An adverbial of time tells you when something happens. Put it at the start of the sentence and add a comma.

Examples

• Later that day, the rain stopped.
• In the evening, we watched a film.

Key words

adverbial of time

tells you when

fronted adverbial

an adverbial at the start of a sentence

comma

marks the end of the fronted adverbial

What is on the worksheet

Every sheet for this lesson has a short teaching box and 12 questions that get gradually harder: 8 fluency questions, then 4 reasoning questions that ask pupils to explain or choose. A writing challenge follows. The questions use the same styles as the key stage 2 grammar and punctuation test (circle, underline, tick, fill the gap, add punctuation, rewrite, explain). They are written for this website, not copied from past papers.

All the answers are on the last page of the same editable Word file. New questions are made every time, so you can print a different sheet for every group or for homework. The same sheet code always gives the same sheet.

Writing challenge: Write six sentences about a day trip. Start each one with a different adverbial of time and put a comma after it.

Pupil target: I can start a sentence with a time adverbial.

The PowerPoint

A 20-slide lesson deck for the same lesson: a starter that revisits earlier learning, key words, an I do and a You do question on each slide with a countdown timer, answers that appear one click at a time, and a challenge. Download the time adverbials PowerPoint.

Where this lesson fits

This is lesson 3 of 60 in the Year 4 SPaG scheme, in the block “Fronted adverbials and commas”.

Other lessons in this block

• What is an adverbial?
• Recognising fronted adverbials (1)
• Place adverbials
• Descriptive adverbials
• Recognising fronted adverbials (2)
• Using fronted adverbials
• Fronted adverbials together

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