Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Grace For President 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, this Grace For President picture book by Kelly DiPucchio 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 Grace For President Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of Grace For President. 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.
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GRACE FOR PRESIDENT SUMMARY
In school, a young girl named Grace is learning about presidents. She is surprised to learn that there has never been a female president. Grace decides that she wants to run for president and her teacher organizes an election. Grace and Thomas, a student from another class, are running against one another. The students learn about the electoral college and Grace and Thomas both run presidential campaigns. They create slogans, buttons, posters, and come up with promises. Grace works really hard during her campaign and spends a lot of time on it.
During the election, Grace and Thomas are tied when it comes time for the last state to cast their electoral votes. Thomas is certain that Sam is going to vote for him. Everyone is surprised when Sam chooses to vote for Grace and she wins the election. When it comes time for career day, Grace knows exactly what she wants to be when she grows up, president!
GRACE FOR PRESIDENT 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 Grace For President reading comprehension questions focus on:
- making inferences
- making predictions
- summarizing and retelling
- comparing and contrasting
- asking and answering questions
- cause and effect
- author’s purpose
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- perseverance
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- proper nouns
- punctuation
- quotation marks
GRACE FOR PRESIDENT 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 Grace For President?
- Lexile® Measure: 570L
- Guided Reading Level: N
- DRA Level: 28
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 3-3.2
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Kelly DiPucchio. It was illustrated by LeUyen Pham.
What genre is Grace For President?
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 40 pages long.
