Pronouns

I have a fun kiddo who is just not into the traditional cards/drill type activities.  She responds much better to play.  So to teach pronouns today, that's exactly what we did - we played!  We collected some characters that were male and female.  We had Beast and Mickey as our males and Anna and Elsa as our females.  We were working on producing possessive pronouns - his and hers.  I had placed items in a bag and had my kiddo take turns pulling items out and naming them.  The she got to pick who to give the item to.  Beast ended up with motorcycles and helicopters (we got to work on introducing new vocabulary and multi-syllable words as well), Anna with microphones, walkie talkies, etc.  After reviewing the vocabulary we talked about how each character had the item so the item was "hers" or "his".  I then cued her to use a 4 word sentence (minimum) to describe who had what item and that the item was his/hers.  "The microphone is hers"  or "The motorcycle is his".  To prompt I started with giving choices is it his or hers, but reduced the verbal prompts quickly. I did continue to prompt by putting the item on the character as if I was giving the character the items to show possession. 

My kiddo enjoyed the activity.  She was an active participant in the naming, decision making, and play of the activity (Mickey rode the motorcycle, Anna sang in the microphone, etc).  We will definitely be re-visiting this activity again!