I have found, however, that by using a cross, it is easy to teach the students all of them on one piece of paper.
The pronouns are in four different categories:
1) Direct Objects
2) Indirect Objects (preposition + person)
3) Preposition + non person or location
4) Quantity or De
So I lay it out on the board as such:
Each section gets a number (which is easy to reference later when asking students "okay, which section of the cross are we in?") as well as the pronouns themselves, when to use them, and a few examples. When I teach object pronouns, I like to take it step by step. First, I ask what can we take out of the sentence. Then I ask what section of the cross we are going to. Then, when applicable, I ask which pronoun we are using. Then I ask where it is placed.
The nice thing with the cross also applies to pronoun order. When there are multiple pronouns used, the order goes as such:
1) duplicates
2) section 1
3) section 2
4) section 3
5) section 4
I've noticed this works very well, as it is extremely visual for the kids. You can just see them referencing it in their heads whenever we are working with this topic.
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I have just been doing exactly this topic with my grade 10 class so I'm interested to try out your pronoun grid in class. This is quite a different arrangement than the horizontal chart that I am familiar with and that my text book uses. I'll see if seeing it in another shape clarifies things for some of the students who are not quite there yet. Thanks for the new idea!
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