Year 4 · SPaG · Fronted adverbials and commas
Year 4 fronted adverbials together worksheet and PowerPoint
To practise together: what is an adverbial?; recognising fronted adverbials (1); time adverbials; place adverbials; descriptive adverbials; recognising fronted adverbials (2); using fronted adverbials.
What this sheet covers
Each question comes from one of the lessons below. If a question is tricky, look back at that lesson’s sheet and slides.
| What is an adverbial? | Words and phrases that tell you when, where, how or how often something happens. |
|---|---|
| Recognising fronted adverbials (1) | Finding the fronted adverbial at the start of a sentence and punctuating it. |
| Time adverbials | Fronted adverbials that tell you when, such as later that day and after lunch. |
| Place adverbials | Fronted adverbials that tell you where, such as behind the shed and in the garden. |
| Descriptive adverbials | Fronted adverbials that tell you how, such as without a sound and with a smile. |
| Recognising fronted adverbials (2) | Telling fronted adverbials of time, place, manner and frequency apart. |
| Using fronted adverbials | Moving an adverbial to the front of a sentence and choosing the best one. |
Key words
- adverbial
- a word or phrase that tells you more about a verb
- fronted adverbial
- an adverbial put at the start of a sentence
- time
- tells you when
- place
- tells you where
- manner
- tells you how
- frequency
- tells you how often
- adverbial of time
- tells you when
- 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: Choose the lesson from this sheet that you found hardest. Write three new questions of your own for a friend, with an answer sheet, then swap and mark each other’s work.
Pupil target: I can remember what I have learned and use it.
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 fronted adverbials together PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 8 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)
- Time adverbials
- Place adverbials
- Descriptive adverbials
- Recognising fronted adverbials (2)
- Using fronted adverbials
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