Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Amazing Grace will find this post helpful. It includes resource recommendations, free teaching ideas, and information about the book. You’ll have everything you need to deliver engaging interactive read aloud lessons based on this story.
With themes of perseverance, growth mindset and positive self talk, this Amazing Grace picture book by Mary Hoffman is a favorite in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms. It will be a big hit in your classroom too! Learn more about this book below!
Engage Your Students with Amazing Grace Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of Amazing Grace. You can find it in the section below.
- Check out the teaching ideas for reading comprehension strategies, grammar topics and social emotional learning skills that can be taught using this children’s book.
- Download the book companion to make lesson planning simple with Amazing Grace reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.
AMAZING GRACE SUMMARY
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 happen when you really want something and you put your mind to it.
AMAZING GRACE LESSON PLAN IDEAS
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We found this book was especially good at teaching the topics listed below.
READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
The text-based Amazing Grace reading comprehension questions focus on:
- making inferences
- analyzing character
- making connections
- author’s purpose
- identifying theme, message or moral
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- perseverance
- growth mindset
- positive self talk
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- quotation marks
- ellipses
- adjectives
- adverbs
AMAZING GRACE ACTIVITIES
You’ll receive all of the following resources aligned to the story:
- comprehension questions
- 30 writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
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BOOK INFO FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS
What are the reading levels for Amazing Grace?
- Lexile® Measure: 680L
- Guided Reading Level: P-Q
- DRA Level: 38
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 3.9-4.1
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Mary Hoffman. It was illustrated by Caroline Binch.
What genre is Amazing Grace?
It is a fiction book. You may want to check out our genre activities or read our blog post, How to Teach Genre to Elementary Students.
How many pages are in the book?
The story is 32 pages long.
