Start your engines! In this fast-paced digital race game, students zoom around the track with every correct answer about fronted adverbials. Each response fuels their car forward - who will reach the winner’s podium first?

This grammar-focused game helps students define fronted adverbials, identify them in sentences, and place the correct punctuation to highlight them. Through repeated practise and visual reinforcement, learners gain confidence in recognising and applying fronted adverbials in their own writing.

With speed, grammar, and sentence structure combined, this is the ultimate literacy track challenge!

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Understand the meaning and purpose of fronted adverbials
• ✅ Identify fronted adverbials in a range of sentence types
• ✅ Apply correct punctuation (commas) following a fronted adverbial
• ✅ Strengthen grammar skills through repeated visual and contextual practise
• ✅ Engage in a high-energy race game that rewards accuracy and speed

How to Play:

1. Students answer questions involving fronted adverbials - meaning, usage, and punctuation.
2. Each correct answer pushes their car forward on the racetrack.
3. Incorrect answers slow their car down and give others a chance to take the lead.
4. The race continues until all questions are complete.
5. The player who crosses the finish line first takes their place on the winner’s podium!

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use during grammar or writing units focused on sentence openers and adverbials
• 💡 Great for Years 3–5 students developing more complex sentence structure
• 💡 Pair with editing tasks where students revise their own writing to include fronted adverbials
• 💡 Replay the game to build speed, accuracy, and deeper understanding

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Let students personalise their experience by choosing from six characters before the game begins
• 💛 Select the number of players or teams at the start of the game to suit individual, paired or group play
• 💛 Send the QR code home for extra fronted adverbial practise in a fun, motivating format

Let’s Race – Fronted Adverbials transforms grammar practise into a high-speed adventure filled with punctuation, sentence power and podium-worthy performance!