Pronoun practice is critical for building essential writing skills. Kids complete simple sentences by choosing correct pronouns, building a wall in the process.
Grammar is an essential part of the second grade language arts curriculum. This guided lesson teaches second graders how to properly use collective nouns, additonal nouns and verbs, and provides plenty of opportunities to practice these grammar rules in context. For more important practice with nouns and verbs, download and print the grammar worksheets that we suggest alongside this lesson.
Understanding the function of nouns is a crucial part of reading and writing fluency. This guided lesson focuses on the types of nouns kids are most likely to come across in third grade texts. Designed by our curriculum experts, the lesson provides grammar instruction and examples to support learning. For more practice, see the nouns worksheets recommended to go along with this lesson.
There, their, and they're: They're tricky to many people! This worksheet explains the difference. Then, kids choose the right word to complete each sentence.
Words are all around. Each one has a name all its own. There are words for positions, words that connect, words for you, me and it! This workbook practices some of the shortest but important ones.
Letter writing is a very engaging and authentic way to learn formatting, punctuation and grammar. The activities in this unit should be learned in tandem with actual letter writing to aunts, uncles or other special far-away people. That way, students can learn and practice the letter writing skills and then apply them in their own letters. It would be especially rich to include their thoughts about books they are reading.
Matching pronouns with their antecedent in writing can be confusing for some fourth graders, but these exercises were developed to aid in student understanding and retention.
In this grammar worksheet, students explore the difference between subject, object, and possessive pronouns based on how the pronoun is used in a sentence.
Pronouns can be used in place of nouns and noun phrases. There are numerous subcategories of pronouns, including reflexive pronouns, possessive, relative pronouns, and many more.
To ensure students understand the differences between different pronoun types, you may want to break lesson plans down into a separate lesson for each type. Education.com’s activities and lesson plans below outline each type of pronoun for both students and teachers.
Pronouns 101
Because there are many types of pronouns, it helps to understand each type and their purpose. Typically, pronouns are anaphoric, or their meaning depends on the word or phrase preceding them.
The different types of pronouns are described below:
Personal pronouns: one of the most common types. The chart below will help your students understand when and why they use different personal pronouns, located in the far-right column.
Person
Number
Case
Subject
Object
First
Singular
I
me
Plural
we
us
Second
Singular
you
Plural
Third
Singular
he
him
she
her
it
Plural
they
them
Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns: used for when someone or something commits an action upon itself. For example: “The boy hit himself.”
Possessive pronouns: reveal whether something is owned or not. They can occur both independently (mine, yours, hers, ours, yours, theirs), and dependent on nouns (my, your, her, our, your, their). Interestingly, both ‘his’ and ‘its’ can be both independent and dependent.
Demonstrative pronouns: ‘this, that,’ and their plural forms ‘these, those.’ They point out position, and may or may not be anaphoric.
Indefinite pronouns refer to people or things that are not defined. They are the biggest group of pronouns, and distributive, negative, and impersonal pronouns.
Relative pronouns: refer back to things already mentioned, and include: who, whom, whose, what, which and that.
Set your students up with worksheets and games above to give them ample practice and develop their understanding of the many different types of pronouns.