Adding -ly to make adverbs, for Year 3, over three pages. A rule box gives three spellings: add -ly to most words, change y to i, and change le to ly. Pupils turn fourteen adjectives into adverbs, from quick and slow to happy, gentle and kind. Four sentences then ask for the adverb form of peaceful, easy, gentle and loud. The key lists all eighteen answers. It follows England National Curriculum spelling and grammar for Years 3 and 4.
Writing - transcription
“Use further prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them (English Appendix 1)”
Every word in Task 1 takes the suffix -ly. Happy, angry, lucky and easy need y changed to i, and gentle and simple need le changed to ly.
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Learning the grammar for years 3 and 4 in English Appendix 2”
Task 2 asks pupils to pick the adverb form that fits a gap, for example peaceful becomes peacefully.
A box with three rules and an example for each: quick, quickly, happy, happily and gentle, gently.
Two tables of seven words each. Pupils write the adverb beside quick, slow, sad, loud, quiet, happy, angry, lucky, easy, gentle, simple, careful, brave and kind.
Four sentences with a gap and an adjective in brackets, such as The baby slept ___ in the cot (peaceful). A small picture of a sleeping baby sits below them.
A numbered list of all fourteen table answers and the four sentence answers.
Spelling lesson
Teach the three rules, then cover the box and let pupils try items 1 to 7 from memory. Check the y to i words first.
Whiteboard warm-up
Call out happy, angry, lucky and easy and ask pupils to write the adverb on a mini whiteboard. Those four are the ones most likely to come out as happyly.
Pairs
One pupil reads an adjective from the table and the other spells the adverb aloud. Swap after seven words.
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