The Camping Trip That Changed America Lesson Plan & Activities
Picture Book Brain
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Grade Levels
1st - 4th, Homeschool
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSRL.1.1
CCSSRL.1.2
CCSSRL.1.3
CCSSRL.1.7
CCSSRL.1.9
Formats Included
- PDF
Pages
22 pages
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What educators are saying
These assignments are always good and work well with my class. It is well made and helps me teach the objectives.
Great resource! I was able to use this with my students to study the book The Camping Trip that Changed America.
Description
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the historical fiction mentor text picture book The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks by Barb Rosenstock and Mordicai Gerstein. Great for biography, Earth Day, conservation history, and Presidents Day studies!
Lessons and activities focus on:
- Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)
- analyzing persuasive language
- comparing and contrasting characters including character traits
- analyzing the author's message / lesson
- main idea and details
The lesson plans include:
- teacher script with strategic stopping points and questions for students to discuss
- printable prompts for student post-reading responses through discussion in writing or reading response logs
- 4-5 day plan
- Discussion questions
- Suggested discussion strategies
- Strategic stopping points for questioning and close reading
- Anchor chart examples
- Sentence stems / frames for oracy and vocabulary development
- Great for bilingual classrooms
- Printable worksheets for written responses
How to Use This Resource:
- whole group
- small group
- as a reading intervention
- special education (SPED)
- bilingual or Dual Language / DLI classrooms
- with ELLs for ESL instruction
- Great for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade
Your first, second, third, or fourth grade students will love this story!
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Total Pages
22 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
N/A
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRL.1.1
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CCSSRL.1.2
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
CCSSRL.1.3
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
CCSSRL.1.7
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
CCSSRL.1.9
Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
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