1. Y5: Spring Term Fiction: Plan 3 Short stories: Spooky Stories
Grammar
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Y5: Spring Term Fiction: Plan 3 Short stories: Spooky Stories

2. Adverbials build suspense by revealing ideas more slowly
create cohesion by linking ideas
build suspense by revealing ideas more slowly
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3. Adverbials tell us more about a verb.
Adverbials can be
a word,
a phrase,
or a clause.
hungrily
between the cracks
after the song ended

4. Adverbials Adverbials tell us more about a verb. The creature prowls.
The creature prowls with hungry eyes.
The creature prowls beneath the bed.
The creature prowls during the night.
In each sentence, the verb is modified by the adverbial.

5. Adverbials for cohesion can answer the questions…
Where?
When?
In what order?

6. Adverbials can answer the question: Where?
The creature prowls.
The creature prowls behind the dark wood.
The creature prowls through the gravestones.
The creature prowls in my nightmares.
Adverbials can answer the question: Where?

7. Adverbials can answer the question: When?
The creature prowls.
The creature prowls at midnight.
The creature prowls on lonely nights.
The creature prowls later.
Adverbials can answer the question: When?

8. Adverbials can answer the question: In what order?
The creature prowls.
The creature prowls first.
The creature prowls secondly.
Lastly, the creature prowls.
Adverbials can answer the question: In what order?

9. Adverbials Adverbials often open with a preposition.
The creature prowls with hungry eyes.
The creature prowls through the long grass.
The creature prowls during the night.
The preposition links the adverbial to the sentence.

10. Adverbials You can change the position of adverbials.
The creature prowled with hungry eyes With hungry eyes, the creature prowled.
The creature prowled through the grass Through the grass, the creature prowled.
When an adverbial appears in front of the sentence it is modifying…
it is called a fronted adverbial.
In the moonlit garden, the creature prowled.
Fronted adverbials are separated from the main clause by a comma.

11. Adverbials in Short Stories
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Adverbials in Short Stories
Read these sentences from Short!
Can you spot the verb and adverbial modifying it?
She peeped between the curtains.
At midnight, she heard the grandfather clock whirr and strike.
It was already half-dark when they heard the local news.
He even followed her into her own driveway.
Next morning, the girl got ready to go to school.
First, she went to the jeans department.
What question does each adverbial answer? When? Where? In what order?

12. Adverbials in Short Stories
Read these sentences from Short!
Can you spot the verb and adverbial modifying it?
She peeped between the curtains.
At midnight, she heard the grandfather clock whirr and strike.
He even followed her into her own driveway.
Next morning, the girl got ready to go to school.
First, she went to the jeans department.
What question does each adverbial answer? When? Where? In what order?

13. The small shape drifted.
Your Turn!
Modify the verb drifted with an adverbial.
You can choose an adverbial for time, place or number.
Try placing it at the beginning and end of the main clause to see which sounds best.
The small shape drifted.

14. Some example sentences
Your Turn!
Which was your best adverbial?
Did you remember to use a comma with fronted adverbials?
The small shape drifted.
Some example sentences
As we hid in the dark, the small shape drifted.
First, the small shape drifted.
Every night I watched, the small shape drifted.
The small shape drifted at midnight.
The small shape drifted above the bed.
Through the graveyard, the small shape drifted.

15. Linking Paragraphs
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16. When do we start a new paragraph?
Change of place/setting
Change of time/ flashbacks
Change of topic/theme
Change of viewpoint
Change of speaker
Introduce a new character
Add suspense or change the mood

17. Relative Clauses
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18. Relative Clauses
Relative clauses can give more information about a noun or pronoun.
They usually begin with a relative pronoun.
The man went down the road.
Tell me more about the man.
The man, who was covered in cobwebs, went down the road.
The man, who was trembling with fear, went down the road.
The man, who had been following them, went down the road.
Relative Pronouns
who, which, where, when, whose, that

19. Relative Clauses
Relative clauses can give more information about a noun or pronoun.
They usually begin with a relative pronoun.
The man went down the road.
Tell me more about the road.
The man went down the road which was strangely silent.
The man went down the road which he had not noticed before.
The man went down the road where nothing was as it seemed.
Relative Pronouns
who, which, where, when, whose, that

20. Punctuating Relative Clauses
Plenary
Punctuating Relative Clauses
When the relative clause comes after the main clause,
we do not usually separate the clauses with a comma.
main clause
relative clause
Rosie stroked the puppy which was hovering above her lap.
A comma would create an unnecessary break in the sentence.

21. Punctuating Embedded Relative Clauses
Sometimes the relative clause is embedded in the main clause.
main clause
Emma ate the spaghetti.
The relative clause needs to be next to the noun: Emma.
Tell me more about Emma.

22. Punctuating Embedded Relative Clauses
Sometimes the relative clause is embedded in the main clause.
main clause
main clause
Emma , who did not know about the joke, ate the spaghetti.
The main clause splits to make space...
Tell me more about Emma.

23. Punctuating Embedded Relative Clauses
Sometimes the relative clause is embedded in the main clause.
main clause
relative clause
main clause
Emma, who did not know it was haunted, ate the spaghetti.
Commas separate the clauses because the relative clause breaks up the main clause.
The main clause splits to make space...
for the relative clause.
Tell me more about Emma.

24. Some example sentences
Your Turn!
Try adding a relative clause to describe the girl or the wood.
The girl walked through the wood.
Some example sentences
The girl, who was following the wolf, walked through the wood.
The girl walked through the wood which seemed to be watching her.
The girl, who would never been seen again, walked through the wood.
Relative Pronouns
who, which, where, when, whose, that

25. End
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