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Grade 9, ESL / Language Arts Std # 1.61: Identify correct pronoun case Nominative, objective and possessive case (NOTE: Pronoun case may include reflexive pronouns) Contractions Misspellings

Lesson Plans: ESL Ideas (B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional) (B) Given a list of pronouns, students locate and highlight as many pronouns as possible in a newspaper article or other writing. (I, T) Given a list of pronouns identified by case, students copy sentences containing pronouns and highlight the pronouns, color-coding according to the case. Students then make lists of the highlighted pronouns according to case. Possessive Pronouns (B, I) Activity provides online self-checking quiz Impersonal It and There (I, T) Introduction helps understand when to use "it" and when to use "there" followed by online self-checking multiple choice quiz and cloze passage Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives (I, T) Introduction provides forms of possessive pronouns and adjectives including examples followed by online self-checking multiple choice quiz and cloze passage Reflexive Pronouns (I, T) Provides table comparison of personal pronouns and reflexive pronouns, explains when to use a reflexive pronouns, and includes an online self-checking multiple choice quiz 410 Grammar: Possessive Pronouns (I, T) Activity provides online self-checking quiz the student changes each sentence so that it uses a possessive pronoun instead of a possessive adjective

Resources: Pronoun-Noun Agreement (I, T) Handout provides descriptions and examples of pronoun types, selecting correct pronouns, and common mistakes in agreement
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