Amazing Grace activities and lesson plan ideas

Our Amazing Grace Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Mary Hoffman's book. Read aloud the picture book then use the printables or go paperless with Google or Seesaw to practice standards-based skills.   THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:  ◼️ READING STRATEGIES ☐ making inferences ☐ analyzing character ☐ making connections ☐ author's purpose ☐ identifying theme, message or moral   ◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ perseverance ☐ growth mindset ☐ positive self talk   ◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ quotation marks ☐ ellipses ☐ adjectives ☐ adverbs   SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT: Amazing Grace is a story about an imaginative little girl who wants to play the role of Peter Pan in her class play. When the other students in the class say that she can’t because she is a girl and she is black, Grace is determined to show that she can be the best Peter Pan. Amazing Grace teaches us about what can