Determiners, two dice games, presentation

Two dice games for KS2:

1. ‘Point or show quantity’ pupils explore the two basic functions of determiners.
2. ‘Introduce the noun’ pupils add determiners to noun phrases and sort determiners into groups.

Both games have a competitive element but are tightly focused on the following objectives:

I know that determiners have two jobs: ‘pointing’ or ‘showing quantity’
I can use determiners accurately in sentences
I can use a wide variety of determiners to introduce nouns
I can sort determiners into groups

Determiners can get a little confusing for primary school aged children when you get beyond simple ‘a’ or ‘an’ activities. How far you go with your class is best judged by you (of course!).

Through the presentation (which you may wish to simplify, depending on how far you wish to go with determiners) and engaging dice games, children will use lots of talk, and really engage with this tricky-to-define but important group of words.