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
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use pronouns so they do not repeat the same names or nouns. They choose forms that show who acts, who receives an action, ownership, or an unknown person or thing.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can revise “Mia found Mia’s hat” to “Mia found her hat.” The student can also choose the correct form in sentences such as “I helped them” and “Everything fell.”
Common Misconceptions
- Students may use me as the doer, as in “Me went home,” or use I after an action word. They may also mix up they, them, and their, or use ownership words for actions.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Fill in the blanks using I, me, my, and someone once each: “__ am reading.” “Sam called __.” “That is __ pencil.” “__ left a note.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs noun and pronoun cards, then have students match cards such as “Lena” with “she” and “the boys” with “they.”
Ask students to write three sentences about a friend, then replace repeated names with fitting pronouns.
Play Pronoun Switch: read a sentence with repeated nouns, and teams earn a point by replacing them correctly.
Label shared supplies with sentences such as “These markers are ours” and “Anyone may use them.”
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