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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Amazing Grace

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Use Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman to strengthen your students comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Amazing Grace is the story of a girl with a wonderful imagination. Grace loves stories. She loves books, and movies, and even listening to the stories her grandma tells. But what Grace loves most is acting out the stories she hears. Grace is also a girl who refuses to let other people tell her what she can and cannot do.

This inspiring story is one students will enjoy reading as they work to make connections with the book, identify the author's purpose, make inferences, synthesize, and determine the important characters, events, and messages in the text. Additionally, this collection of teaching resources includes a lesson plan focused on suffixes along with vocabulary development resources and two assessments.

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Determining Importance with Amazing Grace

Use this determining importance lesson plan and set of resources to support readers as they identify important characters, events, and emotions that impact Grace throughout the story.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

SL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.7RL.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1b

TEKS Alignment

2.6I2.13E2.7A2.13G2.7B2.7C2.1A2.7D2.1C2.7E2.1D2.7F2.6A2.8A2.6B2.8C2.6E2.9C2.6G2.13C

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Amazing Grace

Author, Mary Hoffman, does a beautiful job communicating the importance of believing in one's self. Use this identifying the author's purpose lesson plan and set of resources to help readers notice the ways in which the author reveals her purpose for writing Amazing Grace.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.7RL.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4

TEKS Alignment

2.7A2.13E2.7B2.13G2.7C2.7D2.7E2.1A2.8C2.1C2.9C2.1D2.10A2.6A2.10B2.6E2.10C2.6I2.13C

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Making Connections with Amazing Grace

Grace's story is one of determination and self-discovery. Because your students are in a constant state of discovery, Amazing Grace is an ideal springboard for helping them make connections while reading. Use this minilesson and set of teaching resources to help your students make meaningful connections to the text. In addition to making connections to the text, students will also practice explaining why their connections help them to better understand Grace's story.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

SL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1b

TEKS Alignment

2.7B2.7C2.7D2.7E2.1A2.7F2.1C2.8C2.1D2.13C2.6A2.13E2.6E2.13G2.6I2.7A

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Making Inferences with Amazing Grace

Making inferences is an essential comprehension skill for students to master. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to help readers gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which thinking about character thoughts and feelings can contribute to a deeper level of comprehension and enjoyment of text.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

L.2.6RL.2.6RL.2.7RL.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8

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2.7E2.1A2.7F2.1C2.8B2.1D2.8C2.6A2.13C2.6E2.13E2.6F2.13G2.6I2.7B2.7C2.7D

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Synthesizing with Amazing Grace

Grace changes throughout the story. She goes from being happy and confident to self-doubting, then once again returns to being confident. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to help students synthesize the events of this story in order to understand how characters change across text.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

SL.2.2RL.2.2SL.2.3RL.2.3W.2.8RL.2.4L.2.6RL.2.5RL.2.6RL.2.7RL.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bRL.2.1

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2.7B2.7C2.7D2.7E2.1A2.7F2.1C2.8C2.1D2.9C2.6A2.13C2.6B2.13E2.6H2.13G2.6I

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Running Record with Amazing Grace

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Amazing Grace Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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Comprehension Assessment with Amazing Grace

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Amazing Grace.

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Amazing Grace

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Amazing Grace includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.

This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.

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Writing with Amazing Grace

In the story Amazing Grace, the main character stars in her school production of Peter Pan. This worksheet invites readers to write a review of Grace's performance. Students can also draw Grace as Peter Pan.

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Cause and Effect Matching with Amazing Grace

Read Amazing Grace then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Amazing Grace. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.

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Determining Importance with Amazing Grace (Spanish)

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Amazing Grace (Spanish)

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Making Connections with Amazing Grace (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with Amazing Grace (Spanish)

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Synthesizing with Amazing Grace (Spanish)

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About the Book

Title: Amazing Grace

Author: Mary Hoffman

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Themes: Decision Making, Bullying, Relationship Skills, Self Awareness, Family, Self Management

ISBN: 9780711206991

Publisher's Summary:

Grace loves to act out stories. When her school decides to do Peter Pan, Grace longs to play Peter, but classmates say that Peter was a boy, and besides, he wasn't black. But her mum says she can do anything if she puts her mind to it.

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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Amazing Grace