Grace Goes to Washington 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
"Grace Goes to Washington" by Kelly DiPucchio, takes readers on a journey of an enthusiastic young girl named Grace, on her class trip to Washington, D.C. As Grace explores the nation's capital, she becomes determined to make a difference at her school and helps a new student propose his idea on how to spend the bake sale money! Grace uses her new knowledge from class and the field trip and helps create a powerful presentation for her classmates to vote on. Through engaging storytelling and eye catching illustrations, the book highlights the importance of civic engagement, activism, and the democratic process. "Grace Goes to Washington" is an empowering and inspiring tale that encourages young readers to believe in themselves and their ability to make a difference in the world.
 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.
- Practice comparing and contrasting after you read the book.
- Analyze the setting of this book. Discuss where and when it takes place.
- Help students to analyze what the author’s purpose for writing the book might be.
- Identify different examples of common nouns in the book.
- Introduce students to proper nouns using examples from the story.
- Discuss how problem solving was used throughout the story.
- Explore examples of inclusion in the story.
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.
- Duck for President by Doreen Cronin
- Grace for President by Kelly Dipucchio
- Sofia Valdez, Future Prez by Andrea Beaty
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