A sorting sheet on adverbs for Year 3, over three pages. Pupils sort fifteen adverbs from a word bank into three columns headed How, When and Where. The words include carefully and gently, tomorrow and yesterday, and upstairs and everywhere. On page 2 they write one sentence for each column. The key shows the sorted table and three example sentences. It follows England National Curriculum grammar for Years 3 and 4.
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause”
Tomorrow, later, yesterday, soon and now make up the When column, so pupils sort five time adverbs.
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Use and understand the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 in discussing their writing and reading.”
The columns are labelled with the question each adverb answers, and page 2 asks for a sentence for each type.
A word bank of fifteen adverbs, such as quickly, soon and nearby, and a table with five rows under How, When and Where.
Pupils choose one adverb from each column of their table and write a sentence for each, with three lines per sentence.
The sorted table, with a note that words can go in any order within a column. Sentences earn one mark each for being correct, with a capital letter and a full stop.
Card sort
Cut the word bank into fifteen cards and let pairs sort them on a desk before anyone writes in the table.
Say it first
Ask pupils to say each sentence aloud before they write it. The sentence with a where adverb is the one most likely to lose its full stop.
Plenary
Read out a few page 2 sentences without the adverb and let the class guess the missing word and which column it came from.
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