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Pronouns Worksheet: Words That Stand for Nouns, Greek Myths, Grades 3-5

A passage that says Athena, Athena, Athena in every line is exhausting. This sheet is how a child stops repeating the name without losing who is doing the work.

Three pages of Pronouns Worksheet: Words That Stand for Nouns, Greek Myths, Grades 3-5, laid out as they print
The first pages, as they print at home

By the end of this

  • Say the name once. After that, let a pronoun do the carrying.

Your child is ready for this if they

  • Read a short paragraph on their own and can say what it said
  • Know that a sentence opens with a capital letter and closes with a mark
  • Will write a sentence of their own rather than only fill in a blank

That list matters more than the age we printed on it. You know which of the two is true of your child.

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. A noun names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea. When the same name comes back line after line, the writing turns stiff. A pronoun steps in so the name can rest.

Here is the stiff version. Athena guarded the city. Athena carried a spear. The people thanked Athena. Here is the repaired version. Athena guarded the city. She carried a spear. The people thanked her. The name is said once. After that, pronouns do the work.

Some pronouns do the acting. They stand where the doer stands, near the front of the sentence. These are the subject pronouns: I, you, he, she, it, we, they. So Athena guards the city becomes She guards the city.

Other pronouns receive the action. They also sit right after a small word such as to, for, with, or at. These are the object pronouns: me, you, him, her, it, us, them. So The people thanked Athena becomes The people thanked her. And Hermes ran to the sailors becomes Hermes ran to them.

Here is how to choose. First ask what the name was doing: doing the action, or receiving it. A doer takes a word from the first list. A receiver takes a word from the second. Then put the name back in and read the sentence out loud, to be sure it still says what you meant. When a name is joined to another person, cover the other person and read your pronoun alone. Dad waved to Tim and me becomes Dad waved to me.

What is inside

  1. 01Pronouns: Words That Stand for Nouns — the teaching page
  2. 02Pronouns: Words That Stand for Nouns — the work page, answerable from the teaching page
  3. 03Take it outside: Stand outside and tell somebody in your house about one thing you can see, using the full name of it three times in a row.
Standards alignment, for a portfolio or a state filing

2 alignments. Copy what your state asks for and ignore the rest — this is here for the paperwork, not for the teaching.

FrameworkCodeWhat it covers
CCSSCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.A
CCSSCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.1.A