1. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
Determiners
Year One
SPaG | Determiners

2. Determiners

3. Determiners Introductory Activity Independent Focused Activity
Review Activity
Consolidation Activity
Assessment/Application Activity

4. Aim Success Criteria I can identify and use determiners.
I can explain what a determiner is.
I can identify determiners.
I can explain where a determiner belongs in a sentence.
I can explain that there are different types of determiners.
I can include determiners in my own writing.

5. Introductory Activity

6. Understanding Determiners
Nouns
Nouns are often known as ‘naming words’ because they name people, places, objects and ideas.
Person:
Grandpa
Idea:
excitement
Object:
football
Place:
London

7. Understanding Determiners What is a Determiner?
Determiners are words that come before a noun.
Determiners come before any modifiers such as adjectives.
They introduce the noun and give the reader important information about it.
the
Determiners my
king a

8. Understanding Determiners Specific Determiners
These refer to a specific noun. Use specific determiners when the reader knows exactly what noun you are referring to.
her
The definite article
Demonstrative determiners
his
this
the
those
our my
whose
these
that
their
which
your
what
Possessive determiners
Interrogative determiners

9. Understanding Determiners Specific Determiners in Action
Use specific determiners when the reader knows exactly what noun you are referring to.
Which film did you go and see?
Your pet budgie is smiling at me.
Try completing this sentence using a specific determiner:
___________ Dad’s car broke down on the way home last night.

10. Understanding Determiners General Determiners
These refer to general nouns or nouns that the reader does not know.
General determiners can also tell the reader how many nouns you are talking about, these are called quantifiers.
more
any a
Indefinite article
less
some
few an
many
some
five
Quantifiers

11. Understanding Determiners
Can you identify the determiner in this sentence?
Any computers must be turned off.
Now try these trickier sentences which have two determiners.
The river is just beyond those trees.
Five seagulls landed on the beach.
Whose socks are these stripy ones?

12. Understanding Determiners
Did you identify it correctly?
Any computers must be turned off.
Did you spot both the determiners in each sentence?
The river is just beyond those trees.
Five seagulls landed on the beach.
Whose socks are these stripy ones?

13. Independent Focused Activity

14. Determiner Detectives

15. Review Activity

16. A Closer Look at Articles
There are two kinds of articles:
the definite article (the) and the indefinite article (a or an)
Nouns can be found with or without articles.
The dogs need to be walked every day.
A dog needs to be walked every day.
Dogs need to be walked every day.
Which of these sentences does not have an article?
Which of these sentences shows that the noun is known? (definite article)
Which of these sentences shows that the noun is not known? (indefinite article)

17. A Closer Look at Articles
Bees are important creatures.
The bees are important creatures.
A bee is an important creature.
Which of these sentences does not have an article?
Which of these sentences shows that the noun is known? (definite article)
Which of these sentences shows that the noun is not known? (indefinite article)

18. A Closer Look at Articles
Can you write a sentence about a cat that shows that the noun is known?
(definite article)
Can you write a sentence about a cat that shows that the noun is not known?
(indefinite article)

19. Consolidation Activity

20. Demonstrative Determiners
There are four demonstratives: this, that, these and those.
Those people were so rude!
(Those is a determiner)
That porridge was delicious.
(That is a determiner)
For these words to act as demonstrative determiners, they must be in front of a noun.

21. Demonstrative Determiners

22. Assessment/Application Activity

23. Work on your own to complete the Assessment Activity Sheet.
Determiners
Use all of the information you have learned and practised about determiners.
Work on your own to complete the Assessment Activity Sheet.

24. Work on your own to complete the Application Activity Sheet.
Determiners
Use all of the information you have learned and practised about determiners.
Work on your own to complete the Application Activity Sheet.

25. Aim Success Criteria I can identify and use determiners.
I can explain what a determiner is.
I can identify determiners.
I can explain where a determiner belongs in a sentence.
I can explain that there are different types of determiners.
I can include determiners in my own writing.