Y4 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
Descriptive Fronted Adverbials Lesson
This Descriptive Fronted Adverbials lesson covers the prior learning of What is an Adverbial? and Recognising Adverbials before moving onto the main skill of descriptive fronted adverbials.
The lesson starts with a prior learning activity to check pupils’ understanding. If they need more practice, you can choose other resources for that step. 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 Objective
English Year 4: (4G5.6b) Using fronted adverbials
English Year 4: (4G5.6b) Fronted adverbials [for example, Later that day, I heard the bad news.]
English Year 4: (4G5.6b) Using commas after fronted adverbials
English Year 4: (4G5.6b) Use commas after fronted adverbials
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2 Teaching Support
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Lesson Slides
These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of What is an Adverbial? and Recognising Adverbials before moving onto the main skill of descriptive fronted adverbials. There are a number of questions to check pupils' understanding throughout.
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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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Year 4 GPS Scheme of Work Autumn Block 3 – Fronted Adverbials
This resource is the second block in the teaching sequence and includes 7 small steps with guidance for teaching. It is designed to be used in conjunction with your English curriculum and covers the GPS objectives from the Year 4 National Curriculum.
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Lesson Slides
These are the same as the lesson slides on Classroom Secrets. You can assign this as an activity for pupils to access individually in school or remotely from home.
1 Prior Learning
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Prior Learning Activity
This Descriptive Fronted Adverbials Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of recognising adverbials and fronted adverbials before moving onto the main skill of recognising descriptive fronted adverbials.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 4 What is an Adverbial? Game is designed to check pupils' ability to recognise verbs, adverbs and adverbial phrases.
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Matching Activity
These Year 4 Fronted Adverbials Matching Cards have been designed to check pupils' understanding of recognising and using fronted adverbials.
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Flashcards Activity
These Year 4 Fronted Adverbial Flashcards have been designed to check pupils' understanding of recognising and using fronted adverbials.
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.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 4 Descriptive Fronted Adverbials Game is designed to check pupils' ability to recognise descriptive fronted adverbials within sentences.
2 Application
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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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Mixed Activity
This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions for pupils to practise the main skill of recognising descriptive fronted adverbials.
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Application
This application task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the Descriptive Fronted Adverbials lesson.
2 Homework
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Worksheet
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
