Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards for support ability levels to select and match the correct determinant that can be used before different nouns and differentiated worksheets for core and extension ability levels to select the correct determinants to use before nouns beginning with either vowels or consonants in sentences about schools.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the correct determinants to add before nouns beginning with either vowels or consonants to use when composing example stories based what might happen in a school.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to plan and write a story using familiar settings based on a book by a significant author, practise building words using roots and prefixes and use nouns in sentences with matching determinants. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.