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2. Year 4 – Autumn Block 3 – Fronted Adverbials – Recognising Fronted Adverbials 1
About This Resource:
This PowerPoint has been designed to support your teaching of this small step. It includes a starter activity and an example of
each question from the Varied Fluency and Application and Reasoning resources also provided in this pack. You can choose
to work through all examples provided or a selection of them depending on the needs of your class.
National Curriculum Objectives:
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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3. Year 4 – Autumn Block 3 – Fronted Adverbials – Recognising Fronted Adverbials 1
Notes and Guidance
• Children should know that a main clause can be expanded by adding an adverbial phrase. They should also know that
the location of this adverbial phrase can be moved within the sentence.
• Children need to know that an adverbial can start a sentence and that this is called a fronted adverbial.
• Children should know that almost all fronted adverbials are followed by a comma even if it is only one word, i.e.
Yesterday, I went to the shops and that exceptions to this rule are extremely rare. Writers may choose to omit the
comma to change the pace if the sense is not lost (e.g. Suddenly it started) but more often a comma would follow the
fronted adverbial.
Focused Questions
• What is an adverbial phrase? What does it do within a sentence?
• Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence. What punctuation mark should be used after it?
• Can you change the location of the adverbial phrase within this sentence?
• Change this sentence so that the adverbial phrase becomes a fronted adverbial. What have you had to change or add?
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4. Year 4 – Autumn Block 3 – Fronted Adverbials
Step 2: Recognising Fronted
Adverbials 1
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5. Introduction
Find the adverbs below and create sentences using them.
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he
slowly
but
never
play beautiful
soon

6. Introduction
Find the adverbs below and create sentences using them.
Various answers, for example:
The old man walked slowly round the park.
The concert organiser said that the singer would be on stage soon.
Mary never got any of her spellings wrong in the test.
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he
slowly
but
never
play beautiful
soon

7. Varied Fluency 1
Tick the sentence which contains a fronted adverbial.
Above the clouds, we were off on our holidays.
We were off on our holidays.
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8. Varied Fluency 1
Tick the sentence which contains a fronted adverbial.
Above the clouds, we were off on our holidays.
We were off on our holidays.
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9. Varied Fluency 2
Add the correct punctuation to the sentence.
in the distance you could see the sun setting
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10. Varied Fluency 2
Add the correct punctuation to the sentence.
In the distance, you could see the sun setting.
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11. Varied Fluency 3
Choose the fronted adverbial that best fits the sentence.
The children were hiding.
Quickly
Tomorrow
Behind the
wall
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12. Varied Fluency 3
Choose the fronted adverbial that best fits the sentence.
The children were hiding.
Quickly
Tomorrow
Behind the
wall
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13. Varied Fluency 4
Choose a main clause that will best match the fronted adverbials.
Tomorrow, _________________________.
In the winter, _________________________.
the trees lose their leaves.
we are collecting our new pet.
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14. Varied Fluency 4
Choose a main clause that will best match the fronted adverbials.
Tomorrow, we are collecting our new pet.
In the winter, the trees lose their leaves.
the trees lose their leaves.
we are collecting our new pet.
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15. Application 1
Underline the fronted adverbial in the text below and punctuate it using a
comma.
Down by the river the family were feeding the ducks.
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16. Application 1
Underline the fronted adverbial in the text below and punctuate it using a
comma.
Down by the river, the family were feeding the ducks.
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17. Application 2
Rewrite the sentence below using the underlined adverbial phrase as a
fronted adverbial.
The school bus frequently broke down on the way to
school.
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18. Application 2
Rewrite the sentence below using the underlined adverbial phrase as a
fronted adverbial.
Frequently, the school bus broke down on the way to
school.
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19. Reasoning 1
Julie has written a sentence containing a fronted adverbial.
Unfortunately, we won the lottery twice.
Has she made any mistakes?
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20. Reasoning 1
Julie has written a sentence containing a fronted adverbial.
Unfortunately, we won the lottery twice.
Has she made any mistakes?
Julie has made a mistake because...
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21. Reasoning 1
Julie has written a sentence containing a fronted adverbial.
Unfortunately, we won the lottery twice.
Has she made any mistakes?
Julie has made a mistake because the adverbial does not make sense when
paired with the main clause. A better choice would be ‘surprisingly’ or
‘luckily'.
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