Pronouns for Cohesion: Avoid the Repeats

Year 4 EnglishGrammar and Punctuation2 pages

About this worksheet

Tom and Maya creep into an old, ivy-covered shed in this two-page Year 4 grammar cloze, The Spooky Shed. A mouse scurries across the floor, and Tom drops the torch. Pupils fill ten gaps from a word bank of twelve pronouns and nouns, including it, she, them and the torch. Two words are not needed. The answer key explains the tricky gaps, such as why Tom is clearer than He when a mouse has just appeared. Linked to the England National Curriculum objective on pronouns and cohesion.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œChoosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetitionโ€

Every gap asks whether a pronoun or a noun is clearer, and gaps 6 and 7 show when the noun is the better choice.

What's inside this worksheet

Word Bank

Twelve choices: it, them, Tom, she, their, the torch, Maya, his, us, They, her and He.

The Spooky Shed

The story in six short paragraphs with ten gaps, from the shed at the bottom of the garden to Tom agreeing to carry on.

Answer Key

All ten answers, with notes on the two gaps where a noun is clearer than a pronoun. Maya and their are the unused words.

How teachers use it

Read it all nouns

Read the story aloud with every gap filled by a name. Pupils hear why the repetition needs fixing.

Class discussion

Talk through gap 6 together. It shows how He could make the reader think the mouse jumped.

Editing link

Afterwards, pupils find one place in their own writing where a pronoun could replace a repeated name.

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