Y4 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
Time-Specific Adverbials Lesson
This What is an Adverbial? lesson covers the prior learning of fronted adverbials before moving onto the main skill of time-specific 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
Year 4: (4G5.6b) Using fronted adverbials
Year 4: (4G5.6b) Fronted adverbials [for example, Later that day, I heard the bad news.]
Year 4: (4G5.6b) Using commas after fronted adverbials
Terminology for pupils:
- (4G1.6a) adverbial
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2 Teaching Support
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Lesson Slides
These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of fronted adverbials before moving onto the main skill of time-specific 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 Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of fronted adverbials before moving onto the main skill of adverbs to express time and frequency.
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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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Flashcard 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 Time-Specific Adverbials Game is designed to check your pupils' ability to recognise frequency and time adverbials in 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 application questions for pupils to practise the main skill of adverbs to express time and frequency.
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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 time-specific 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.
