• Quick retrieval from earlier learning (Pronoun or noun? Make it clear who is meant; Pronouns). Students answer on mini whiteboards.
• Show answers together and note who needs support in the main task.

1. Priya showed Zara a photo of her cat. Why is this sentence unclear? (Photos can't show cats. / We can't tell whose cat it is. / It needs a comma. / It is a fragment.) → We can't tell whose cat it is.Prompt: Find each pronoun (he, she, it, her, they).
2. Choose the pronoun that fits. Grandma made soup for Leo and me. She made it for ___. (us / they / them / we) → usPrompt: Who or what is the gap talking about?
3. Which version is clearest and reads best? (Mia found a shell. It washed her and put her on its shelf. / She found it. She washed it and put it on her shelf. / Mia found a shell. She washed it and put it on her shelf. / Mia found a shell. Mia washed the shell and Mia put the shell on Mia's shelf.) → Mia found a shell. She washed it and put it on her shelf.Prompt: Repeating the same noun again and again sounds clumsy.

• Show a sentence with the grammar point used wrongly and ask what sounds odd.
• Share the objective: I or me? Sam and I, Sam and me. Read the success criteria together.

• Work through the example out loud, saying why you do each step, not just what you do.
• Example: Choose the correct pronoun. Omar and ___ built the model together.
• Step 1: Use I/he/she/we as the subject; use me/him/her/us as the object or after a preposition.
• Step 2: Put it back into the sentence and read it aloud: "Omar and I built the model together."
• Step 3: So the answer is: I
• Answer: I
• Pause after each step and ask a student to say what comes next.

• Do these together. Students try each step on whiteboards before you reveal it.
• Use the hints as prompts rather than giving the answer.

1. Choose the correct pronoun. The prize went to Zara and ___. (she / her) → herPrompt: Cover up the other person's name and read the sentence with just the pronoun.
2. Which sentence uses Standard English? (Leo and myself baked a cake. / Me and Leo baked a cake. / Leo and me baked a cake. / Leo and I baked a cake.) → Leo and I baked a cake.Prompt: Try each sentence with only the pronoun: 'I baked a cake' or 'me baked a cake'?

• Students work on the student sheet. Circulate and check the first two answers of every student early.
• Students who finish: write a question of their own for a partner, with the answer.

The 6 questions are on the student sheet below, with answers in the key.

• Two questions on their own. Sort answers into got it / nearly / not yet to plan the next lesson.

1. Which sentence uses Standard English? (Leo and myself baked a cake. / Me and Leo baked a cake. / Leo and me baked a cake. / Leo and I baked a cake.) → Leo and I baked a cake.Prompt: Try each sentence with only the pronoun: 'I baked a cake' or 'me baked a cake'?
2. Choose the correct pronoun. Would you like to come with Dad and ___? (me / I) → mePrompt: Cover up the other person's name and read the sentence with just the pronoun.

Free online practice with hints and printable worksheets for this skill: eurekami.com/english/grade-5.