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SPaG | Determiners

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

Determiners

Determiners

Introductory Activity Independent Focused Activity Review Activity Consolidation Activity Assessment/Application Activity

Determiners

Success Criteria Aim

• 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.

Introductory Activity

Understanding Determiners

Nouns

ideas.

Person:

Grandpa

Idea:

excitement

Object:

football

Place:

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.

Determiners

the my a king

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 article

the

Interrogative determiners

which what this those

Demonstrative determiners

these that

Possessive determiners

their

whose

• ur

my your her his

Understanding Determiners

Specific Determiners in Action

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

Your pet budgie is smiling at me. Which film did you go and see? T ry completing this sentence using a specific determiner:

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.

a an

Indefinite article Quantifiers

many

some

any few five some more less

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.

Success Criteria Aim

• 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.