Amazing Grace Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources

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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

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

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2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9C,2.8C,2.8A,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6G,2.6E,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C

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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

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

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2.7D,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.10C,2.10B,2.10A,2.9C,2.8C,2.7E,2.1A,2.7C,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6E,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C

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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

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

TEKS Alignment

2.1A,2.1C,2.1D,2.6A,2.6E,2.6I,2.7A,2.7B,2.7C,2.7D,2.7E,2.7F,2.8C,2.13C,2.13E,2.13G

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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

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

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2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.8C,2.8B,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6F,2.6E,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C

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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

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

TEKS Alignment

2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6H,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C

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Suffixes with Amazing Grace

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman as a springboard for instruction focused on suffixes.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how adding the suffix -ing to verbs in order to create adjectives is used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with suffix -ing.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

RF.2.3,RF.2.4

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Vocabulary Connections with Amazing Grace

Your students will enhance their enjoyment and understanding of Amazing Grace if they're prepared for new vocabulary introduced in this text. And this classroom-ready Vocabulary Builder has everything you need. Download the individual Vocabulary Builder or the Super Pack for fun, productive activities that support Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary growth.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

L.2.4a,L.2.5a,L.2.6

TEKS Alignment

2.7E,2.7F,2.3A,2.3B,2.3D

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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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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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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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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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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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