Year 5 · SPaG · Word classes
Year 5 recognising adverbs worksheet and PowerPoint
To recognise adverbs of manner, time, place and frequency in sentences.
Adverbs
An adverb tells you more about a verb. It can say how something happens (manner), when (time), where (place) or how often (frequency).
| manner | the dog barked loudly (how) |
|---|---|
| time | we are leaving tomorrow (when) |
| place | the children played outside (where) |
| frequency | we often visit the park (how often) |
Examples
- She carefully lifted the glass.
- He never eats fish.
Key words
- adverb
- tells you more about a verb, an adjective or another adverb
- adverb of manner
- says how: slowly
- adverb of time
- says when: yesterday
- adverb of place
- says where: outside
- adverb of frequency
- says how often: always
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 four sentences about a busy morning, each with an adverb of a different type (manner, time, place and frequency). Underline the adverbs.
Pupil target: I can find adverbs and say what they tell me.
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 recognising adverbs PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 34 of 43 in the Year 5 SPaG scheme, in the block “Word classes”.
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