A Grade 1 grammar course on the words that show who owns something without naming them. Instead of “Ava’s hat” you can write “her hat”, and instead of “the dog’s bowl” you can write “its bowl”.
Students learn the whole set, match each one to the owner it stands for, and then meet the rule that saves the most trouble later: these words never take an apostrophe. Not “her’s”, not “their’s”, and above all not “it’s”. That last one is the most common punctuation mistake in written English, and a first grader who learns it now never has to unlearn it.
What you will learn
- Use my and your and our to show who owns something
- Use his and her and their and its
- Match the owning word to the person or thing that owns
- Leave the apostrophe out of every one of these words
- Swap a possessive noun for a possessive pronoun
A note for parents and teachers: contractions such as it’s and you’re are named here only to keep them apart from the owning words. They are taught properly in a later course.