The Camping Trip That Changed America Lesson Plan & Google Activities
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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! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs.
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
- Google Docs for student responses
- Google Slides for displaying lesson ideas, discussion questions and prompts
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
- Distance learning / virtual learning
- on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless
Your first, second, third, or fourth grade students will love this story!
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