My, Your, His, Her: Possessive Adjectives

Student Task

• Hold up your own pen and a student's pen: "This is my pen. That is your pen."
• Teach the chart in the lesson plan, then do activities 1 and 2 together.
• Children complete activities 3 to 5; answers are in the answer key.

Classroom Use

• Whose is it? Put children's belongings in a box. Pull one out and the class says "It's his bag!" or "It's her pencil!"
• Family photo talk: children show a family drawing and describe it: "This is my sister. Her name is Ana."
• Pronoun ball: throw a ball and call a subject pronoun; the catcher says the possessive adjective.

Differentiation

Support: keep the pronoun chart on the desk and focus on my, your, his and her. Challenge: add possessive pronouns such as mine, yours and theirs.

Answer Key & Assessment

Activities 1 to 4 check form and meaning (answer key included). Activity 5 checks use in writing.

Learning Objectives

• Match subject pronouns to possessive adjectives (I → my, we → our).
• Choose the correct possessive adjective in a sentence, including his and her.
• Use its correctly and tell it apart from it's.

Teacher Tips

Many learners mix up his and her. Remind them that the choice depends on the owner, not on the thing: Tom loves his mom; Ana loves her dad.

What's Included

• 6-page printable PDF lesson pack: teacher lesson plan with timings, materials and differentiation
• Key vocabulary list (4 words with meanings and examples)
• Student worksheet (5 activities)
• Editable Word version of the worksheet
• Complete answer key (also as a separate PDF)

Additional Files

• Editable Worksheet (Word) (DOCX)
• Answer Key (PDF) (PDF)

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