Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

Determiners

Year One
SPaG | Determiners
Determiners
Determiners
Introductory Activity

Independent Focused Activity

Review Activity

Consolidation Activity

Assessment/Application Activity
 Aim
• I can identify and use determiners.

Success Criteria
• 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.
Introductory Activity
 Understanding Determiners
Nouns
Nouns are often known as ‘naming words’ because they name people, places, objects and
ideas.

Person: Idea: Object: Place:

Grandpa excitement football London
 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
 Understanding Determiners
Specific Determiners

These refer to a specific noun. Use specific determiners when the reader knows exactly
what noun you are referring to.

The definite Demonstrative

article determiners her
his
the this
those our
my
whose
these
whic that their
h
your Possessive
Interrogative what determiners
determiners
 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.
 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
Indefinite
article any
a less
some
few
an
many
some
five Quantifiers
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?

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?

Independent Focused Activity
Determiner Detectives
Review Activity
 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.

1. The dogs need to be walked every day.

2. A dog needs to be walked every day.

3. 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)
 A Closer Look at Articles

1. Bees are important creatures.

2. The bees are important creatures.

3. 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)
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)
Consolidation Activity
 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.
Demonstrative Determiners
Assessment/Application Activity
 Determiners

Use all of the information you have learned and practised about determiners.

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 Application Activity Sheet.