30,000 Stitches is part of our Starts With a Story Collection, which includes more than 550 picture book companions based on high quality children’s literature that support you in delivering highly-engaging interactive read alouds with follow up activities. Learn more about this children’s book below! - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
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SUMMARY
"30,000 Stitches" by Amanda Davis is a powerful true story, chronicling the story of the American flag. The book delves into the history of this powerful symbol that flew over Ground Zero after 9/11 and traveled across the 50 states on a journey to become new and restored. The American Flag eventually ends up back in New York after it's long and tough journey symbolizing freedom, faith and hope. Through 30,000 stitches, readers learn about the incredible journey the symbol of the American flag went through and understand the powerful impact of the flag. The true story, 30,000 stitches is an educational journey that will leave readers with a strong feeling of patriotism and pride from the incredible journey of the symbolic red, white and blue flag.
 USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Our read aloud lesson plans for this picture book come with reading comprehension questions (with sample student responses), 30 writing prompts, teaching ideas for grammar skills, social emotional learning discussion ideas, and more. Check out our list below to get a sneak peek at some of the skills this resource teaches.
- Have students practice their questioning skills as you read the book.
- Help students to analyze what the author’s purpose for writing the book might be.
- Identifying the theme, message, or moral is an important skill that takes a lot of practice. Use this story as an opportunity to help your students with this reading strategy.
- Analyze the illustrations in the story. Discuss how they provide meaning that the words might not.
- Encourage students to use their summarizing and retelling strategies.
- Explore prepositions and how they describe nouns or pronouns.
- Discuss the importance of teamwork and what a good teammate looks like.
NO-PREP PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES:
If you are looking for “ready to go” activities for the first day of school, be sure to check out the book companion. With it you’ll receive all of the following resources to align with this specific book:
- comprehension questions
- 30Â 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
This book is a must have for your school or classroom library. Your students are going to love completing these activities for the book and you will be impressed with how much they learn. You will want to read this book to your class every year.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
You and your students will love the similar books listed below, which can all be found in our free picture book list.
- Our Flag was Still There by Jessie Hartland
- The Wall by Eve Bunting
- America's White Table by Margot Raven
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