Kentucky Reading and Writing L.1.1.c

ELA1st GradeLanguage

The Standard

personal, possessive and indefinite pronouns in a sentence.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Conventions of General American English

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students use pronouns in sentences instead of repeating a name or noun. They choose words like she, his, and someone to show who they mean, who owns something, or that a person is unnamed.
What Mastery Looks Like: They can change “Mia found Mia’s bag, and a person helped Mia” to “Mia found her bag, and someone helped her.” They can tell who her means and why someone fits.
Common Misconceptions: Students may write “The bag is her” instead of “The bag is hers.” They may use he when two boys are named, leaving the reader unsure which boy they mean. They may think someone names a specific person.
How to Assess It: For an exit ticket, give “Maya has a hat; Maya puts Maya’s hat on a hook, and a person takes it” and ask students to rewrite it using she, her, and someone.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a toy dog and word cards, then have them change “Ben pets Ben’s dog” to “He pets his dog.”
Ask partners to revise “Leo lost Leo’s lunch when a person moved it” using his and someone, then explain their choices.
Play pronoun bingo with he, hers, and someone; read clues such as “belongs to her” for students to match.
At the lost-and-found box, show an unclaimed scarf and ask students to write, “Someone left a scarf; is it yours?”

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