This PowerPoint presentation, suitable for more than one lesson, provides a humourous report about a type of guinea pig called a trolley pig. It gives examples of the key types of fronted adverbial - those starting using: prepositions, with, verbs ending in -ing, because, although, if, similes starting with ‘Like…’ and ‘As…as’, adjectives and adverbs of time (when, before etc). The text also includes relative clauses starting with who, which, whose and where, and an adverbial starting with otherwise. Font and spacing suitable for dyslexic learners; cognitive load has been kept to a minimum. Use for SPaG lessons or for demonstrating how to improve sentence structure using adverbials. There are some suggested extended writing follow-ups at the end of the document.

Three sheets per lesson Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1 directs rainbow writing of single sentence related to picture Sheet 2 directs whole word recognition of topic words Sheet 3 directs segmenting into syllables of topic words Sheet 3 allows the pupil to write own sentence Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to all history topics Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages

Three sheets per lesson Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1 directs rainbow writing of single sentence related to picture Sheet 2 directs whole word recognition of topic words Sheet 3 directs segmenting into syllables of topic words Sheet 3 allows the pupil to write own sentence in a speech bubble Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Controlled vocabulary using High and Medium Frequency tricky words Topic vocabulary chosen for relevance to all history topics Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Repetitive format from lesson to lesson builds independence Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages

A presentation with examples of images and sentences from various picture books, mostly fiction. All sentences are from real texts, to reinforce teaching of fronted adverbials starting with prepositions. The presentation can be used alongside my other fronted adverbials with prepositions lessons - one each on ‘examples’, ‘how to write them’ and ‘practice writing them’ - available individually or as a bundle. (Please note, the images and accompanying text in this presentation are not copyright/royalty-free.)