This powerful determiners KS2 grammar resources pack provides everything you need to teach a series of five lessons on determiners, culminating in an extended writing task where children can use their grammatical understanding in context.
Alternatively, you may wish to teach the sessions in larger chunks, spread over a longer period of time, or intersperse them with different Grammar Burst lessons
Determiners KS2 resources included
- PowerPoint
- Challenge sheets
- Determiners cards
- Determiners grid
- Model letter and writing plan
- Uplevelling worksheet
What are determiners?
A determiner is word that’s used to identify which particular thing we are talking about. It specifies a noun as known or unknown and goes before any modifiers (eg adjectives or other nouns). The articles ‘the’ (definite) and ‘a’ or ‘an’ (indefinite) are the most common type of determiner.
Determiner examples
- Julia’s dad bought her a football. The football was expensive! [‘the’ is a determiner and refers us back to a particular football]
- the home team [article, specifies the team as known]
- a good team [article, specifies the team as unknown]
- that pupil [demonstrative, known]
- Julia’s parents [possessive, known]
- some big boys [quantifier, unknown]
List of determiners KS2
- articles (the, a or an)
- demonstratives (eg this, those)
- possessives (eg my, your)
- quantifiers (eg some, every)
National Curriculum English programme of study links
Year 4 (from Appendix 2)
Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases (e.g. the teacher expanded to: the strict maths teacher with curly hair).
Terminology: determiner