About this worksheet
A three-page Year 4 writing task on varying sentence openers. Page 1 has a five-sentence paragraph about a walk in the woods where every sentence starts with Then. Pupils rewrite it using a word bank of six fronted adverbials, including Deep in the woods, Without warning and As the sky darkened. Page 2 asks for a five-sentence paragraph about a storm, with at least three different fronted adverbials, beside a photo of a lightning storm over a village street. The key gives a sample answer for each task. It follows England National Curriculum grammar.


