Fronted adverbials starting with -ing verbs

This lesson presentation aims to introduce children to ways of joining ideas other than using conjunctions like ‘and’. In this case, it shows them that ‘The cat sat on the mat and hissed at the dog’, becomes ‘Sitting on the mat, the cat hissed at the dog.’

There is some revision at the beginning of using ‘and’ to join ideas. This includes the misconceptions and errors that can occur throughout the primary key stages, namely using a finger space on its own between two ideas - the cat sat on the mat she hissed at the dog, and comma splicing - the cat sat on the mat, she hissed at the dog. This revision is from the presentation (available here) ‘Full stops KS1 LKS2 Intervention Lessons & Exercises’. It is up to the teacher whether to use the revision section or not.

The presentation is aimed at Lower Key Stage 2 but could also be used with Years 5 & 6. It may be used as one lesson or several.