The Camping Trip That Changed America by Barb Rosenstock

By Catherine Plovich

The Camping Trip That Changed America is a story about a camping trip President Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir took in 1903. While camping, Teddy and John discussed the importance of preserving our national wilderness.

Possible strategy instruction:

• C: Make and adjust predictions; use text to confirm.
• C: Compare and contrast within and between text.

• A: Use the pictures. Do the words and pictures match?
• A: Skip the word, then come back.

• F: Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody.

• E: Tune in to interesting words and use new words in speaking and writing.
• E: Use dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries as tools.

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