Book Summary
Even students who have never been camping will enjoy this story of a family’s overnight camping trip. Told in first-person point of view and cleverly illustrated by “photographs” taken by the young boy, Our Camping Trip uses simple dialogue and repetitive text to ensure readers’ success. 

About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Retell

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand and remember a fiction story
• Sequence story events
• Identify and produce rhyme
• Read words with the long i pattern of vowel, consonant, final e
• Recognize and understand that some words describe actions
• Understand and form contractions

Materials

• Book – Our Camping Trip (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Sequence, long i, contractions worksheets

    Indicates an opportunity to use the book interactively (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are not consumable.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: and, we, to
• Content words: berries, camera, camping, cooking gear, hamburgers, lake, nighttime, picture, sleeping bags, tent, turtle