Pronoun Activities

You can set up an activity for students to use a pronoun to replace a person’s name. For example, if you were to write the sentence, “Jane went outside” if you had Velcro stickers, you could have the students place the pronoun for the word “Jane” over her name. If you made it more of a tournament, where there was a prize involved, then you would maintain the interest of the children.

Timed Worksheets

Another idea for a pronoun activity that you could infuse within your lesson plan is to use timed worksheets. Usually when children see a worksheet, they dread it and revere it as being class work that they would rather not be doing. What if you made it fun?

Turn the rows of students into teams. So if you had three rows of four students in each row, then each row would be a team. Each team would elect a team captain. Students would have two minutes to find all of the pronouns listed on the worksheet. The first team that can do it right would win a prize.

Reading Lessons

Yet another fun idea for encouraging students to learn their pronouns is read funny yet zainy books that will encourage learning through laughter. Two books that you could consider reading are I and You and Don’t Forget Who: What is a Pronoun by Brian P. Cleary and Grammar Tales: The Planet Without Pronouns by Justin M. Martin.

You can draw an activity out of these books. You can have the students listen carefully as you read and then ask them to identify any pronouns that they can remember from what you read. In this instance you might consider reading the book paragraph by paragraph and stopping in between each paragraph to ask students which pronouns they heard.

Ball Games

Yet another activity would include having a nerf ball and standing or sitting in a circle. Randomly toss the ball to the student and have them say a sentence with at least one pronoun in it. Once they complete the task have them toss the ball to another student and so forth and so forth.

Power Point Presentations

If you really want to get creative, you can create a power point presentation that you would present to the class. Each slide should feature a floating pronoun. Have the students identify both the flying pronoun and any other pronouns that they see. The nice thing about the power point presentation is that you can always print it out as a handout for students to take home. You can also reuse it as a handout when delivering a standard pronoun lesson.

Teaching Pronouns

Here is a quick checklist of things that you could do in order to teach pronouns and make it a fun and exciting experience for your students.

Read fun books about pronouns or even fairy tales and have them tell you which pronouns they heard
Make funfilled pronoun worksheets (you can find tons of these online for free)
Give positive feedback using a pronoun in the sentence as an illustration to the class
Divide the class into teams and have them find the pronouns in the sentences you write on the board
Reward your students with a school appropriate treat

Teaching students about pronouns can be both fun for you and your students, and before you know it, they will be begging you to teach them more about grammar. Keep it simple. Keep it fun.

Pronoun Activities