Virginia SOL 1.LU.1.C

ELA1st GradeLanguage Usage

The Standard

Use personal and possessive pronouns to represent nouns.

Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Grammar

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students replace repeated names and nouns with words such as I, she, they, my, his, and their. They choose forms that show who acts, who receives an action, or who owns something.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can revise “Lena feeds Lena’s dog” to “She feeds her dog.” The student chooses pronouns that match the person, number, and ownership shown.
Common Misconceptions: Students may say “Me went home” instead of “I went home.” They may mix up his and her, or add apostrophes to forms such as hers.
How to Assess It: Give this exit ticket: “Maya has a book. ___ reads ___ book.” Students should write “She” and “her.”

Lesson moves

Place toy figures beside labeled objects, then have students describe each figure using he, she, they, his, her, or their.
Ask students to write two sentences about a friend, first using the friend’s name, then replacing it with pronouns.
Play pronoun bingo by reading noun phrases such as “Maria’s backpack” while students cover matching forms such as “her backpack.”
Use classroom belongings to make sentences such as “This is my pencil” and “That is their folder.”

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