Start a Sentence With an Adverb

Year 3 EnglishAdverbs3 pages

About this worksheet

Starting a sentence with an adverb, for Year 3, over three pages. Page 1 has eight sentences with the adverb in the middle or at the end, such as The lights went out suddenly and We will go to the beach tomorrow. Pupils move the adverb to the front and add a comma. Page 2 gives six adverb starters and a picture of a garden door. Pupils use three of them to write a story opening. The key gives the eight rewrites and a sample opening. It follows England National Curriculum grammar for Years 3 and 4.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œUsing fronted adverbialsโ€

Every rewrite on page 1 and every sentence in the story opening starts with a single-word adverb.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œUsing commas after fronted adverbialsโ€

The instructions on both pages remind pupils to put a comma after the adverb, and the key shows it in every answer.

What's inside this worksheet

Move the Adverb to the Start

Eight sentences in two columns, each with two lines for the rewrite. They include The cat crept carefully across the wall and We finished our maths work earlier.

Write a Story Opening

Six word-bank starters (Suddenly, Slowly, Later, Carefully, Quietly, Soon) and eight lines. Pupils write three sentences about discovering a secret door, each starting with an adverb and a comma.

Answers

The eight rewritten sentences with their commas, such as Tomorrow, we will go to the beach, and a sample three-sentence opening.

How teachers use it

Modelling

Write The lights went out suddenly on the board and slide the adverb to the front. Read both versions aloud so pupils hear where the pause falls.

Story start

Use page 2 as the first write in a story unit. The garden door gives pupils a setting without any planning.

Comma check

Pupils swap and tick each sentence that starts with an adverb followed by a comma. Anything missing a comma gets a coloured dot.

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