Subject pronouns, personal pronouns, and possessive pronouns; there are so many to learn! Help your students learn about specific pronouns with these fun and quick activities. From grammar activities focusing on pronoun use in sentences to fun games and more interactive activities, we’ve got you covered! Take a look at these awesome activities that you can adapt for students of all ages to incorporate grammar activities into their everyday lives!
1. Pronoun Strips
Build your students’ knowledge of pronouns with this simple activity. Start by giving them a list of sentences and then have them replace the nouns with the correct pronouns. This activity is perfect for learning basic pronouns with beginner English students or younger learners who are starting out with pronouns.
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2. Pronoun Flowers
The perfect activity for your first graders! This flower activity has your learners place the names of their classmates and objects with the correct pronouns. Create flower centers with the subject or subjective pronouns. Then, glue on the correct names! Display them around the room for your students to refer to all year long.
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3. Pronoun Power
Get groovy with your lesson on pronouns! Have your kiddos create lists headed with pronouns then write the correct people and things underneath. They can attach them to a headband and show their pronoun power! Be sure to include gender-neutral pronouns and have your students list their personal pronouns somewhere to make for an inclusive lesson.
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4. Pronoun Pizza
Pronoun lessons with a food item? That’s right! This fun activity is the perfect way for your learners to practice using pronouns in sentences. Simply have them follow the instructions on the printout to create an informative and interactive piece of work! You might even want to reward your students with a slice of real pizza for correct answers!
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5. Pronoun Dice Game
Pair off your students for a fun pronoun game! They’ll take turns to roll the dice and then they’ll need to correctly use the selected pronoun in a sentence. You could create your own boards with object pronouns or reflexive pronouns for even more fun!
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6. Pronouns Mini Game
This pre-made digital activity is great for teaching grammar! Let your eager kiddos run up and pick a question and if they give the correct answer, it disappears! You’ll have your whole class excitedly waiting for their turn to come up to the board and get involved! It’s perfect for building their identification skills and you can even make it available for your students to access at home for some extra practice.
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7. Mastering Pronouns
Did you know there are actually a bunch of different types of pronouns? Help your students learn to identify some of these with this fun color-coding activity. Instruct them to color in the pronouns on the cover and then find and highlight them in the sentences underneath the pictures with the corresponding color. This activity provides good practice in comparing nouns with pronouns.
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8. Pronoun Spinner
This activity idea is geared toward older students and can be adapted for possessive, objective, and many more types of pronouns! The spinner helps your kiddies visualize how each different pronoun can be used and is a great resource for individual students to keep on hand all year long!
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9. Pronoun Dice
This simple game is simple to set up; all you’ll need to do is print the dice net and assemble it! Challenge your little learners to create a correct sentence using whichever pronoun they roll! Adapt the dice to cover all kinds of pronouns; for advanced students, you can include multiple dice with different types of pronouns and have them write continuous sentences that use them all!
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10. Pronoun Gumballs
Add this colorful activity to your classroom toolbox to help your kids get to grips with pronouns. They’ll love coloring each gumball pronoun to match the key at the top. Once they’ve colored everything, why not have them create some sentences using the pronouns they just identified?
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11. Pronoun Sorting
Your little locksmiths will have a fun time matching names and people to their associated pronouns. Matching activities like these are a great way to master skills and increase your kids’ engagement in some hands-on learning! How many keys will open each lock? Simply print and laminate this super resource, and let your kiddos find out!
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12. Pronoun Ice Cream Stacking
Another great spin on matching activities, this ice cream pronoun practice is sure to put a smile on the face of any child with a sweet tooth! Your learners will practice matching the correct pronoun to each form of the verb “to be.” You can laminate the pieces to keep them durable for reuse every school year!
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13. Place a Pronoun
We’ve got the perfect cut-and-stick pronoun activity for you! Let your kiddies practice their fine motor skills as they cut out pronouns and paste them in their appropriate spot. Not only will they be using their knowledge of singular and plural pronouns, but they’ll also sharpen their context clue skills in this sentence completion activity.
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14. Pronouns Introduction
Why not kick off your learning about pronouns with an engaging video? Videos can be a great way to grab your kids’ attention and support their learning. In this one, they’ll learn that pronouns are important parts of speech, and they make your writing flow better! The best part is that they can watch the videos over again if they need a refresher down the line!
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15. Pronoun Song
Are your kiddos ready to sing a pronoun song?! Another great video learning tool, this pronoun song has a catchy tune and teaches all about pronouns with colorful words and pictures. Even parents and teachers will be humming this tune for days, and your child will love it even more!
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16. Live Worksheet On Pronouns
Worksheets can be a simple way to have your young learners practice their grammar skills, but live worksheets add a techy flair! Your kids can use their iPads or computers to match pronouns to the corresponding forms of “to be” by drawing lines on the screen! They’ll love this fresh take on the traditional boring paper worksheets!
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17. Pockets Full of Pronouns
Pronoun pockets are a staple in any grammar-loving classroom, and can serve a double role as both decor and educational material! Start by cutting some different colors of construction paper into pocket shapes and have your kiddos write words with their corresponding pronouns on little flaps of paper. Staple these on a bulletin board so your learners can test their pronoun poise at any time!
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18. Name the Pronoun
Perfect for both kinesthetic and auditory practice, pronoun mats are a great resource to have handy in the classroom for your young students. Print out a handful of these templates and laminate them or place them in plastic sleeves to make them last for years! Your students will enjoy pointing at and naming each pronoun one by one.
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19. Pronoun Substitution
Learning pronouns can be lots of fun with this substitution game! Gather a variety of singular objects such as a ball, pencil, notebook, and tissue box as well as some groups of objects to represent plural pronouns. Set your activity up by labeling the items with a number and then let your kids roam the room, jotting down the correct pronoun to replace each number.
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20. Personal Pronoun Scrambler
This is no ordinary worksheet! It’s sure to challenge your students as they’ll need to cut up the letter tiles and scramble the letters around to spell out twelve personal pronouns. Spelling certainly counts as there are no extra letters given!
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21. Pronoun Slap Down
This quick-paced thinking game is best suited for your older learners who are ready for more difficult pronoun play! After cutting out the pronoun cards, have your kids lay them out flat or in a stack. You’ll then all out one of three pronoun categories and your players must swiftly slap the correct pronoun.
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22. Pronoun Clapping
Clapping games during a read-aloud or carpet time are a simple, easy way to incorporate practice without any setup or materials. Choose your favorite book and instruct your kiddies to clap every time a pronoun is spoken! The more this exercise is done, the quicker they’ll become at identifying pronouns!
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23. Hats Off to Pronouns
How do you teach your youngest learners about pronouns? With a coloring sheet of course! Grab this free coloring sheet to help your little learners distinguish between the “he” and “she” pronouns. After coloring, they can cut out the pronoun hats and give it to a friend or family member who uses the “he” or “she” pronoun!
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24. Pronoun Bingo
Pronoun bingo is a fantastic way to have your youngest kids practice their grammar skills as well as listening skills. Pass out a handful of tokens and a BINGO card to each student before you go over the instructions. Then, you’ll call out different pronouns and your players will put a token on the corresponding picture. Three in a row? BINGO!
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25. Pronoun Puzzles
This printable puzzle is perfect for your early emergent readers! Simply print, laminate, and cut (or cut and laminate if you prefer!), and it’s ready to go! Your little learners will enjoy putting the pieces of these pronoun sentence puzzles together, and once they’re done, they can mix the pieces up and solve the puzzle all over again.
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26. Pronouns Cut and Paste Worksheets
If you are just beginning to introduce pronouns to your kiddos, interactive notebooks are a beneficial way to solidify the concepts. Show students how to carefully cut and paste the pictures and pronoun choices into their notebooks. Then, they can circle the correct pronoun!
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27. Pronoun Flower Pot Display
Tired of anchor charts? Create this 3D pronoun display and attach it to a bulletin board for all to see! Your students will understand the relationship between pronouns and their correct verb of “to be” with this flower pot portrayal. They’ll be amazed to learn about all of the different pronouns that stem from each verb!
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28. Scarecrow Pronoun Game
Your learners will have no fear of pronouns after practicing with this fun spinner game! All they’ll need is the scarecrow spinner, an answer sheet, a paper clip, and some crayons. They can take turns and spin to land on a word, then color in the correct form of “to be” on their answer sheet that goes with the pronoun.
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29. Color Coding Pronouns
Put a grammar-themed spin on color-by-numbers and give your students a color-by-pronoun version! They’ll have a fun time with these color-coding worksheets where they’ll color each section in with the color that corresponds to the given pronoun! They’ll be grammar geniuses before they know it as they practice distinguishing between singular and plural pronouns!
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30. Proud Pronoun Project
Your kiddies will need their iPads or tablets for this engaging and personalized activity! They’ll have fun choosing their personal pronoun and decorating it before adding their picture on top! Print out their final masterpieces to tape on their desks or create a bulletin board to proudly display their pronouns!
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31. Pronoun Mobile
Get your kiddos to help you create a 3D pronoun display to decorate your class with! Have them work together to match the correct picture to its corresponding pronoun for this fun mobile project. This fantastic craft doubles as a learning tool to remind them about each pronoun and as cute decor!
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32. Pronoun Anchor Chart
Anchor charts have been a favorite in classrooms everywhere because they can be so creative! You can use this “nouns in disguise” idea to help your learners understand the connection between nouns and pronouns. Analogies like these are a fantastic way for you to make learning easier and more exciting!
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33. Baskets of Pronouns
You shouldn’t put all of your eggs in one basket, but what about your pronouns? Using construction paper, carefully you can start by cutting out some basket shapes and labeling them with pronouns. Then, create a variety of ‘eggs’ and add names and nouns to these. Mix up the eggs and see if your little learners can successfully match each egg to the correct basket. Egg-cellent work!
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34. Read If You Were a Pronoun
What kid doesn’t love a good ol’ picture book? This one is special because it gives them examples of pronouns in colorful, fun letters that stand out on each page! Your students will naturally learn this part of speech as you read them this story! This is a super book to use in the earlier mentioned pronoun clapping game to help your kiddies get the hang of it.
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35. Read I and You and Don’t Forget Who: What is a Pronoun?
Need another pronoun read-aloud? Cleary’s picture book is an adventure of puns and humor while also educating its readers all about this part of speech! As the book says, I am a pronoun…you are a pronoun…we are all pronouns! Your kiddies will love this funny and engaging read!
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36. Pronoun Riddles
The gears in young learners’ brains will be turning fast as they try to solve these seven tricky riddles! These pronoun riddles are sure to keep them engaged, and if you’re feeling fancy, you could add them to a bulletin board! Why not challenge your students to come up with their own riddles once they’ve solved these ones?
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37. Reflexive Pronouns Concentration Game
Grab some notecards and write incomplete sentences on half of them with their missing reflexive pronouns on the rest of the cards. Let your kiddies compete with each other by scrambling the cards and facing them down in an array formation. Then, they’ll take turns trying to match the correct cards together! The winner is the player who’s successfully matched the most sets by the end of the game.
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38. Pronoun Dictogloss
Dictogloss is a listening activity that requires careful attention and patience from your kiddos. Find or write a short passage full of pronouns; as you read it aloud to them, they’ll need to write down any pronouns they hear as well as other important keywords! The final challenge is to see if they can put it all together to retell the passage!
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39. Let’s Jump
Add some movement to your daily grammar lessons with this kinesthetic pronoun game. You can use dry-erase floor mats or simply use paper to create “stepping stones” and label each with a different pronoun. As you read a sentence aloud, your elementary students must find and jump onto the correct pronoun! Why not make it competitive by taking away some pronouns each round and eliminating students who aren’t fast enough?
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40. Pronoun Scavenger Hunt
Everyone loves a scavenger hunt especially if it’s a competition! Hide some pictures on brightly colored paper around the room to prepare for the activity. When you call out a pronoun, students can race to find a picture that matches it correctly. The pupil or team who finds all the items the quickest will be the winner!
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41. Pronoun Word Search
Word searches are always a calming classroom favorite and this pronoun version is no exception! Pass these out to your class, set a timer, and keep track of your kiddos that finish first! Your little pronoun detectives will have even more fun if the top five get a prize!
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