Move It to the Front

Year 4 EnglishFronted Adverbials3 pages

About this worksheet

A three-page Year 4 worksheet on moving the adverbial to the start of a sentence. An example box shows We went swimming after lunch becoming After lunch, we went swimming. Pupils then rewrite eight sentences with the underlined adverbial at the front, starting with a capital letter and adding a comma. Page 2 asks whether the meaning changes and which version suits a story better. The key gives all eight rewrites and notes for the two open questions. It follows England National Curriculum grammar.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œusing fronted adverbialsโ€

Pupils move an adverbial of time, place or manner to the front in all eight sentences, such as before tea and under the sofa.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œusing commas after fronted adverbialsโ€

The instruction asks for a comma after each fronted adverbial, and the example shows it.

What's inside this worksheet

Move It to the Front

An example, then eight sentences with the adverbial underlined, from The fox hid behind the shed to Mum found the lost keys under the sofa.

Think About Your Writing

Two open questions with writing lines, next to a photo of a fox at the corner of a shed.

Answers

The eight rewritten sentences, a model answer for question 9 and guidance for accepting reasons in question 10.

How teachers use it

After the rule lesson

Do the example together, then let pupils try sentences 1 to 4 alone before you check them.

Whole-class talk

Use question 9 to compare In silence, the children waited with The children waited in silence. Ask which one feels slower.

Editing own writing

Ask pupils to find two sentences in their story that end with an adverbial and move one to the front, using the steps on this sheet.

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