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Year 5 – Autumn Block 1 – Ready to Write – Fronted Adverbials

Notes and Guidance:

• Children should know that a main clause can be expanded by adding an adverbial phrase. They should

also know that the location of this adverbial phrase can be moved within the sentence.

• From Year 4, children may know that an adverb can give more detail about a verb, an adjective and even

other adverbs. They tell us how, when, why, where or how often.

• Children should know that all fronted adverbials must be followed by a comma even if it is only one word,

i.e. Yesterday, I went to the shops.

Focused Questions

• What is an adverbial phrase? What does it do within a sentence?

• Can an adverbial phrase move location within a sentence?

• Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence. What punctuation mark should be used after it?

• Change this sentence so that the adverbial phrase becomes a fronted adverbial. What have you had to

change or add?

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Year 5 – Autumn Block 1 – Ready to Write

Step 3: Fronted Adverbials


Introduction

Identify the fronted adverbial in each of the sentences below.

A. Before long, the bus had arrived.

B. In the distance, a wolf howled at the moon.

C. Waking up, the lion cub opened its eyes and yawned.

D. Later that day, the police officers returned to the station.


Varied Fluency 1

Circle the sentence below which has a fronted adverbial.

A. My parents will be celebrating their twelfth wedding anniversary

with all of our family and friends tonight.

B. Later today, my parents will celebrate their twelfth wedding

anniversary in the place where they first met.

C. It is my parents’ twelfth wedding anniversary today so in our

house, it is a very special day.


Varied Fluency 2

Insert a comma after the fronted adverbial in the sentence below.

Before sunrise Zachary ate his cereal

whilst catching up on the previous

day’s cricket.


Varied Fluency 2

Insert a comma after the fronted adverbial in the sentence below.

Before sunrise, Zachary ate his cereal

whilst catching up on the previous

day’s cricket.


Varied Fluency 3

True or false? The adverbial used in the sentence below is an

adverbial of frequency and can be moved to the front of the

sentence.

According to my dentist, I should brush my

teeth twice daily if I want my teeth to be

healthy and strong.


Varied Fluency 3

True or false? The adverbial used in the sentence below is an

adverbial of frequency and can be moved to the front of the

sentence.

According to my dentist, I should brush my

teeth twice daily if I want my teeth to be

healthy and strong.

True because the following sentence still makes sense. Daily,

according to the dentist, I should brush my teeth twice if I want my

teeth to be healthy and strong.


Varied Fluency 4

Identify which adverbial in the sentence below can be moved to

the beginning of the sentence.

The young man stood and waited

patiently under the grandfather clock

whilst repeatedly checking the time.


Varied Fluency 4

Identify which adverbial in the sentence below can be moved to

the beginning of the sentence.

The young man stood and waited

patiently under the grandfather clock

whilst repeatedly checking the time.

Under the grandfather clock, the young man stood and waited

patiently whilst repeatedly checking the time.


Application 1

Rewrite the sentence below with one adverbial phrase at the

beginning of the sentence:

The Emperor and his wife strode

majestically around the inner palace

grounds before the sun rose.


Application 1

Rewrite the sentence below with one adverbial phrase at the

beginning of the sentence:

The Emperor and his wife strode

majestically around the inner palace

grounds before the sun rose.

Before the sun rose, the Emperor and his wife strode majestically

around the inner palace grounds.



Application 2

The children are discussing which adverbials are best to use in a

sentence.

Janet always parks the family car on the gravel

driveway before entering the house.

Whose adverbial would fit best?

Gilmour

Without thinking

Greedily

Ray


Application 2

The children are discussing which adverbials are best to use in a

sentence.

Janet always parks the family car on the gravel

driveway before entering the house.

Whose adverbial would fit best?

Ray’s adverbial would fit best. Without thinking, Janet always parks

the family car on the gravel driveway before entering the house.

Gilmour

Without thinking

Greedily

Ray

Reasoning 1

Gareth thinks that the phrase ‘the scenic view’ can be moved to the

beginning of the sentence and used as a fronted adverbial.

Is he correct? Explain your answer.


Sinead’s mum was leaning against the

window whilst she was admiring the

scenic view in her friend’s garden.

Reasoning 1




Gareth is incorrect because…





Reasoning 1




Gareth is incorrect because ‘the scenic view’ is not a complete

fronted adverbial on its own.





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