Language and Grammar: Clarify and Verify

Pair Talk With a partner, talk about things Cristina may have missed after she went to live with her mother. Clarify your ideas by explaining them or comparing them to something else. Verify your ideas with examples from the story. Use pronouns in subjects and predicates.

Cristina missed palm trees.

She mentioned them to Jerry when she asked about evergreens.

Writing and Grammar: Write About Fitting In

Study the Models When you write, you want to avoid confusing your reader. Using the correct forms of pronouns will make your writing clear and easy to understand.

Not Ok

Me see Kathy in the lunchroom. Her is talking to Jerry. Them are sister and brother. She waves to I. Then me see Sergio. He and me are in the same English class. I go and sit with he. Us speak Spanish together. I tell he and his friends about my school in Puerto Rico.

This writer confuses the reader by using pronouns incorrectly.

Ok

I see Kathy in the lunchroom. She is talking to Jerry. They are sister and brother. She waves to me. Then I see Sergio. He and I are in the same English class. I go and sit with him. We speak Spanish together. I tell him and his friends about my school in Puerto Rico.

This writing makes much more sense.

Add Sentences Write two more sentences to add to the OK model that add detail and explain more of the events.

Illustration of the pen icon WRITE ON YOUR OWN Write about a situation when a friend did not feel comfortable. Tell how that person felt and what happened. Be sure to use correct words in your sentences.

Remember

  • • Subject pronouns include: I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they

  • • Object pronouns include: me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them