CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1d
The Standard
Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns (e.g., I, me, my; they, them, their; anyone, everything).
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
What This Standard Means
Students need to choose the right pronoun in speaking and writing. They should know when to use words for people, words that show ownership, and words that refer to an unnamed person or thing. They also need to hear whether a sentence sounds right, like “She gave it to me” instead of “She gave it to I.”
Mastery looks like using pronouns correctly in short oral answers, shared writing, and independent sentences. Students often mix up I and me, his and her, or they and them. Indefinite pronouns can be tricky because words like someone and everything do not name a specific noun.
Ways to Teach It
- Give students picture cards and sentence frames, then have them swap noun cards for matching pronoun cards.
- Ask students to fix and explain this sentence: “Me and her found their lunchbox.”
- Read five short sentences aloud and have students hold up a green card if the pronoun sounds right.
- Have students write two classroom helper sentences, such as “She carries the basket” and “Everyone lines up.”
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