Y3 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
What is an Adverb? Lesson
This Year 3 What is an Adverb? lesson covers the prior learning of Adding -ly to Words before moving onto the main skill of understanding what an adverb is.
The lesson starts with a prior learning activity to check pupils’ understanding. The interactive lesson slides recap the prior learning before moving on to the main skill. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning with engaging reasoning and application tasks.
National Curriculum Objectives
English Year 3: (3G1.6) Using adverbs to express time and cause
English Year 3: (3G1.6) Express time, place and cause using adverbs [for example, then, next, soon, therefore]
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Teaching PowerPoint
This teaching PowerPoint guides pupils through the prior learning of Adding -ly to Words before moving onto the main skill of understanding what an adverb is. There are some modelled varied fluency and application and reasoning questions included at the end.
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Modelling PowerPoint
This PowerPoint can be used to model the questions that the children will complete on the varied fluency and application and reasoning worksheets as part of this lesson.
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Free Year 3 GPS Scheme of Work Spring Block 1 – Adverbs
This is a free scheme of work for Year 3 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. This resource is the first block in the teaching sequence and includes 5 small steps with guidance for teaching. It is designed to be used in conjunction with your English curriculum and allows you to cover the Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation objectives from the Year 3 National Curriculum.
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Interactive Activity
This GPS Year 3 What is an Adverb? revision activity includes 5 questions designed to support recognising adverbs.
1 Prior Learning
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Prior Learning Activity
This Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of adding -ly to words before moving onto the main skill of understanding what an adverb is.
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Video Tutorial
In this Using the Suffix -ly Video Tutorial, Katie explains how this suffix can be added to the end of a word to change its function. She uses key terminology including adjectives and adverbs.
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Flash Cards
This Year 2 Using –ly Flash Cards Game aims to support pupils’ understanding of suffixes.
2 Varied Fluency
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Varied Fluency
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to support the teaching of this step.
2 Application
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Application
This application task can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the What is an Adverb? lesson.
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Mixed Activity
This mixed activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and application questions for pupils to practise the main skill of understanding what an adverb is.
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Application and Reasoning
This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
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Homework
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
