Grace for President activities and lesson plan ideas

Our Grace for President Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Kelly DiPucchio'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 ☐ making predictions ☐ summarizing and retelling ☐ comparing and contrasting ☐ asking and answering questions ☐ cause and effect ☐ author's purpose   ◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ perseverance   ◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ proper nouns ☐ punctuation ☐ quotation marks   SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT: 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 anot