2022 Summer Reading Camp

This year our theme for Summer Reading Camp is Soaring Into Summer! Our overarching purpose for this year's Summer Reading Camp is to ensure that students are engaged in an enjoyable and rigorous experience that targets their growth as readers.

Super Readers!

Students at West View Elementary (above) and Roebuck Elementary (below) are excited to wear their "Super Reader" capes and masks during their independent reading at camp. Students across our district enjoyed "Soaring into Summer" as they took flight as readers, writers, researchers, and learners!

James is so excited that he earned his own mask and cape during Summer Reading Camp at Anderson Mill. Students will get to wear them at their end of camp celebration!

Mrs. Fortenberry poses with her Super Readers at Roebuck who earned their capes for exhibiting excellent character traits highlighted during camp such as perseverance, making good choices, and growing confidence!

Super Teachers!

Teachers at Anderson Mill Elementary's Summer Reading Camp (above) posed for a picture with our very own Superhero, Captain America! Dr. Taylor donned his suit and took up his shield and soared by each school to encourage students to grow as readers!

Below, Mrs. Richards, reading interventionist at Anderson Mill is all smiles after receiving hugs from her small group of Super Readers!

We are thankful for each one of our teachers and staff who willingly gave of their time and talents to serve our students this June! They truly are super heros!

2022 Summer Reading Camp Staff

This year we are grateful to combine funding and support from our Sizzling Summer Enrichment Camp under the direction of Annie Means as well as funding from the SCDE Summer Reading Community Partnership Grant to provide our students with the following academic and enrichment opportunities to support their growth:

Literacy Coaches to provide teachers with guidance in data analysis including end of year iReady and DRA scores to identify student's targeted area of instruction across our multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) and instruction such as our whole and small group.
Certified teachers in all classrooms, including current 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders at AMES, FES, RBES, WVES, and WHES as well as current kindergarten and fourth grade students at AES, JBES, and LOES.
Academic interventionists and pre-service college students to provide small group instruction at each school four days a week.
Librarians to provide checkout and research workshop lessons at each school two days a week.
Guidance counselors at each school two days a week.
Art and Music teachers at each school two days a week.
P.E. coaches and teachers at each school two days a week.
ESOL teachers at Arcadia, Lone Oak, and Fairforest Elementary to provide students with small group instruction that aligns with their language and literacy needs four days a week.
Interactive STEM lessons aligned with our new science standards in partnership with Jeff Young and Dr. Scott Taylor at the Lincoln Science Center for every class, 1st-3rd grade each day. *Current third and fourth grade students at AES, JBES, and LOES will also be able to have a week long STEM camp at the Lincoln Science Center.

Ms. Robards' Students Soar in STEM!

Ms. Robards, is teaching her readers at Fairforest Elementary how to use their engineering skills to design and construct a tower out of marshmallows and toothpicks. Each week our students utilized essential skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration in order to complete their STEM challenge!

Mr. Hollis Teaches Targeted Reading Skills

Mr. Hollis, one of our college pre-service teachers helps a group of readers at Arcadia Elementary practice identifying letter sounds in one of his small groups that are designed to provide targeted support for student's reading in the area they most need growth.

Ms. Collins Encourages Our Super Readers!

Ms. Collins, our cafeteria manager at Roebuck enjoys the afternoon celebrations of our readers in the cafeteria each day. She and her staff are superheros, ensuring every student has a healthy breakfast and lunch each day. She was all smiles in her mask providing encouragement to our Roebuck super readers!

#ReadersAreLeaders!

Our number one priority in summer reading camp is to focus growth on student's independent reading. Each component of our SRC is designed to support and encourage both student enjoyment and achievement in literacy. These young readers across our district are immersed in their books!

SRC Teacher and Staff Responsibilities

Each and every one of our SRC staff members work to ensure our students are growing roots and gaining wings as readers this summer. Please see specific job responsibilities and descriptions for each staff member below:

Summer Reading Camp staff at Roebuck Elementary are all smiles as they motivate students to become Super Readers!. It takes a village to raise a reader and we are very thankful for the many ways our teachers and staff collaborate to ensure our students are growing and learning each and every day.

Students at Fairforest Elementary have loved the many learning opportunities that have been provided to them by their teachers and staff. Each day students are engaged in whole group and small group reading instruction that is designed to motivate and encourage independent reading, while also providing just right, targeted instruction in the areas of reading they need support in the most.

In the pictures above and below, students are working on small group instruction in the area of vocabulary, phonics, and comprehension based on their targeted learning pathways created in PLC meetings with their teacher and literacy coach.

Summer Reading Camp

Curriculum Resources

Our students are engaged in reading and writing throughout a tiered approach during Summer Reading Camp. While our curriculum resources for this year's Summer Reading Camp comes from excellent sources such as Scholastic and Fountas and Pinnell, it is our teachers, coaches, and staff that make the curriculum come to life and connect grade level standards with students' needs and interests.

Tier 1 Reading Instruction

- Phonics Instruction/ Word Study Workshop (15 minutes each day) -
- D6 ELA Phonics Scope and Sequence
- Tier 1 Reading Workshop (60 minutes each day) -Scholastic Lit Camp
- Example: 1st Grade Orange Scholastic Lit Camp Lessons and Books Day 1-8
- Please see this book interest inventory we would like students to complete the first week of camp and send to our SRC librarians to help them curate text sets on topics of interest for your students.

SRC Book Interest Survey

- Tier 1 Writing Workshop (60 minutes each day) - D6 Writing Workshop

Tier 2 Reading Instruction

D6 Targeted Tier 2 Small Group Instruction Fountas and Pinnell Guided Reading (30 minutes)
Includes independent reading (15 minutes)
Includes iReady personalized pathway (15 minutes per day)

Math Instruction

D6 Summer Enrichment Math Curriculum (60 minutes per day)

STEM Out of the Box (30 minutes each day)

Research Workshop (30 minutes each week)

Music Lessons ( 1 day every other week)

Bucket Drumming composed by Ms. Claire Foote at JBES
K-2 will be doing "What Else Can I Do" from Encanto:
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3-4 will be doing "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto:
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Art Lessons (1 day every other week)

Art Activities created by Ms. Jackie Weeks at RBES
K-1 - Windsocks
2nd - Rockets
3-4 - Kites
2022 SRC Art Project Pictures

Guidance Lessons (1 day each week)

Week 1: Building Confidence
Week 2: Perseverance/Resilience
Week 3: Making Good Choices/Reflecting on Choices
Week 4; Hopes and Dreams

2022 SRC Guidance Lessons

P.E. Activity ( 1 day each week)

Volleyball
Soccer
Basketball
Golf
2022 SRC P.E. Activity / Sports Schedule

Highlights From This Year's Summer Reading Camp!

From June 6 to June 30, our students were immersed in reading, writing, researching, problem solving, and engaging in a variety of enriching learning experiences. Take a look at the videos and pictures below that highlight what our students have been learning at each of our schools during this year's camp.

At Woodland Heights Elementary, these two students loved building a high frequency word tower to help them practice their high frequency words.

Phonics/ Word Study Workshop

An essential part of our daily literacy block is our word study workshop where our teachers engage students in targeted phonics instruction using a systematic and explicit approach using our D6 ELA Phonics Scope and Sequence. Our approach to phonics instruction in summer reading camp is targeted and focused on the skills that our students need the most determined by data and is also engaging using a variety of strategies such as Elkonin boxes, authentic decodable texts, and interactive read alouds with modeling and many opportunities to try it out!

Arcadia second grade teacher, Mrs. Kelly works with her small group of students on targeted phonics instruction. Students are working on practicing their phonics skill with a list of words before trying them out in a short passage of decodable text. Responsive instruction during small group time is an essential part of growing our readers.

Reading Workshop

Each morning our Summer Reading Camp core instruction begins with our Reading Workshop. Our reading workshop follows a gradual release of responsibility model where the teacher models strategic reading using modeling and think alouds in a mini-lesson using a high quality, authentic text. The teacher has multiple copies of this text to engage students in guided practice through shared reading where students have an opportunity to practice the strategy/skill with ongoing support and feedback through formative assessment before practicing it on their own during independent reading. The shared reading and then independent reading is followed by opportunities for students to engage and respond to text both orally through conversations and dialogue with each other and with the teacher and in writing through a reading response. Our overarching goal in reader's workshop is for our students to be able to apply what they've learned as a reader in their own independent reading with a book of their choice that aligns with their interests and abilities.

These two students in Ms. Burton's classroom at Roebuck love reading one of the books they picked out from their free take home book fair at the library called Diary of a Pug. Ms. Burton provided time each day during reading workshop for students to independently read.

Readers at Woodland Heights are enjoying reading Jake Drake by Andrew Clements with their teacher during reading workshop. She is working with them on the comprehension skill of predicting during this lesson. As students read each chapter they are checking to see if their predictions and inferences about what is going to happen next are true. This type of metacognition, or "monitoring their thinking" is an essential skill in building great readers.

One of our reading goals for our students during Summer Reading Camp is to grow in confidence. One way to help students grow in confidence as readers is to increase the amount of time they are reading each day with books of their choice. This reader pictured on the left from Arcadia is writing down the books she has read during independent reading time. When our students can look back at not just the quantity of books they've read, but also reflect on the quality of time they spent enjoying reading they grow into confident readers!

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Carter, a reader in Ms. Burgess's class really enjoyed the book, Crow Call. In this video, he shares with her why he liked this book so much and displays his detailed drawing he completed during reading response that reminded him of going hunting with his Papa. Each day in reading workshop students are given an invitation to respond to their reading either through writing, drawing, discussion, etc. This component is an essential part as it helps the reader connect to the text and to also connect to other readers.

Students in Ms. Towery's class at Fairforest Elementary enjoyed their Context Clues Cafe during Reading Workshop. Ms. Towery determined from her data conversations with her literacy coach, Ms. Register that her students could benefit from targeted instruction to build their comprehension through the use of context clues. Ms. Towery worked to transform her room into a cafe, complete with tablecloths and floral centerpieces that invited students in small groups to work together to practice a variety of strategies for helping them build their comprehension skills.

At Jesse Bobo Elementary, students are working on their personal narratives and enjoy conferencing with their teacher and Mrs. Justice, continuous improvement coach about their rough drafts.

Writing Workshop

Each day after reading workshop, our students engaged in writer's workshop where they immersed themselves in the writing process, creating their own personal narratives about people, places, and events they have experienced. After students brainstormed possible topics, listened to and read mentor texts for possible ideas and author's craft they could try out in their stories, they created their rough drafts, engaged in editing and revision with peers and with their teachers before publishing their final drafts.

Writers at Fairforest Elementary enjoy writing their personal narratives. Publishing takes many forms and some of our older students enjoy typing their final drafts while our younger students enjoy illustrating theirs.

Students at Roebuck Elementary enjoyed drafting their own personal narratives. They were able to explore mentor texts like these above to gather ideas about what they most wanted to write about. They also learned lots of writer's craft for hooking their reader such as writing with sensory details. After drafting, revising, and editing, students were ready to publish their final drafts to share with their parents the last week of camp!

Learning Pathways That Target Instruction

At each of our summer reading camp sites, our literacy coaches worked diligently in May before Summer Reading Camp started to review and analyze student data to determine the areas of each student's biggest need in order to guide whole group instruction and to intentionally target small group instruction. Our literacy coaches poured over multiple data points, drilling down into students' end of year iReady scores to go beyond the scale score and percentage to look at their subdomain scores in order to determine which area of reading could benefit from the most support during our 16 short days of summer reading camp. In addition to iReady data, coaches reviewed DRA and Fountas and Pinnell levels. After intentionally grouping students based on factors such as reading skill and approximate reading level, our coaches met with teachers to review their groups and to determine instructional pathways that were targeted to maximize student growth. Below is our District 6 SRC Literacy Intervention Small Group Pathway Template and instructional menu created for schools to use for this year's SRC.

2022 District 6 SRC Literacy Intervention Small Group Pathway Template

2022 District 6 SRC Literacy Learning Pathway Instructional Menu

Coaches and teachers were given flexibility to make the pathway their own and to create a working version of the template that was most efficient and effective for them.

Take a look at the examples below from Lone Oak, Arcadia, Jesse Bobo, and Fairforest Elementary Schools.

Learning at Lone Oak that Leads to Student Success!

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Please note that in each lesson how the teachers are making sure that in each lesson students have the opportunity to practice the identified phonics skill with explicit modeling and practice before applying the skill in a decodable text. Ensuring that students have the opportunity to apply the skill in the context of a passage ensures that the skill transfers and is not just taught and practiced in isolation.

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At Lone Oak Elementary, our Summer Reading Camp teachers are learning too! Teachers have intentionally worked to apply the literacy strategies they have learned this past year from their book study on Shifting the Balance and our phonics scope and sequence in their small group instruction. Teachers met with their literacy coach, Ms. Miller prior to the start of SRC to determine their small groups and to create literacy pathways that align targeted instruction with students' needs. In the videos to the left and below you will see first grade teachers, Ms. Allen and Mrs. Skipper work with students in their small groups.

You will also see in the videos the sound walls the teachers reference in their lessons as well as their Shifting the Balance cards that help provide targeted practice on the skills students need. In this link you will find the Shifting the Balance Phonics Skills that each teacher used during the lesson.

Shifting the Balance Phonics Skill Cards

In the videos below, Ms. Allen and Mrs. Skipper explain their process for targeted small group instruction.

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The Future at Fairforest Elementary is Bright Due to Teacher Leaders who Work for Student Success!

Ms. Holmes, teacher at Fairforest Elementary has worked to intentionally align her small group instruction and formative assessment with her students' areas of needed reading support as determined by her data analysis. In the picture to the right you can see Ms. Holmes working with a small group of students on phonics instruction, specifically blends and diagraphs. Ms. Holmes created a learning pathway with her literacy coach, Mrs. Register prior to camp starting and throughout her instruction she utilized formative assessments to monitor student progress and determine when the group has mastered a skill and is ready to move on and when a student may need additional practice.

Take a look at an example of one of her small group pathways at the link below:

Ms. Holmes 2022 SRC Literacy Pathway - Small Group

Ms. Holmes worked with Mrs. Register to create a one page pathway that has the information needed for all of her groups. This pathway approach to our small group literacy instruction is one that FES plans to use this fall to help all of our teachers and interventionists support the growth of our readers.

Take a look at an example of her whole group pathways at the link below:

Ms. Holmes 2022 SRC Literacy Pathway - One Pager

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In this video clip, Ms. Holmes explains her process for determining what students in her Summer Reading Camp small groups needed support it and how she aligned her instruction and utilized formative assessments to help her monitor students' progress and support their growth.

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Small Group Phonics Part 2

Arcadia Achieves Student Growth with Targeted Literacy Instruction

Mrs. Kelly, second grade teacher at Arcadia Elementary has enjoyed teaching Summer Reading Camp and has intentionally worked to provide students with strategic phonics instruction based on their literacy pathways. Take a look at her videos of her small group instruction on the left and her explanation of her targeted small group instruction with her literacy coach, Mrs. Terry in the video below:

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All Hands On Deck for Small Group Reading Instruction

Our classroom teachers are not our only small group reading instructors in this year's Summer Reading Camp! We have learned that small group instruction can be one of the most effective parts of our literacy block when it is targeted to our readers' needs, abilities, and interests and when it is provided by a passionate instructor who truly cares about the growth of each child. In addition to our classroom teachers, we have our reading interventionists, ESOL teachers, and college pre-service teachers who serve to provide effective "just in time and just for me" instruction for our students. Each child has a small group lesson every day in our summer reading camp. Take a look at the pictures below that show a snapshot of our small group teachers in action.

Ms. Brown is Growing Great Readers One Book At A Time

Ms. Brown is a current college student at Clemson University and is gaining valuable experience in the education field working with small groups of students in reading at Woodland Heights each day!

Mrs. Harris's Small Group Working on Language and Literacy

Mrs. Harris, ESOL teacher is working with a small group of students at Arcadia Elementary to provide strategic support for language and literacy growth.

Mrs. Gist is Growing Readers and Gaining Experience

Mrs. Gist is a current graduate student at Converse College working towards her certification in elementary and early childhood education. She will be student teaching this fall with us at Fairforest and has done an excellent job teaching small groups in Summer Reading Camp under the direction of Mrs. Costner at Lone Oak Elementary.

Mr. Johnson Makes Small Groups Fun!

Mr. Johnson is a current college student at the Citadel and he has been an integral part of providing targeted small group instruction to our readers at Woodland Heights with support from Mrs. Wolfe, our literacy coach and SRC teacher, Ms. Evatt.

Ms. Alexander Makes A Difference

Ms. Alexander, current college student at USC has been an excellent role model for our students at Fairforest Elementary. She has provided small group instruction as well as support for independent student work.

Ms. Yarborough Gives and Gets Best Work!

Ms. Yarborough is a current college student and education major at USC and has enjoyed providing small group reading instruction to her students at Roebuck Elementary this summer. She has been able to apply many of the teaching strategies she has learned in her coursework.

Mrs. Pittinger Loves Her Readers!

Mrs. Pittinger is a current Masters of Teaching candidate at Converse and is working this summer in our camp to gain valuable teaching experience and to also make a difference in the growth of our readers. She has worked with Ms. Costner and Mrs. Miller at Lone Oak Elementary!

Ms. Thompson is All Smiles

Ms. Thompson, current graduate student loves helping students at Anderson Mill's Summer Reading Camp grow as readers. Students have enjoyed learning from her each day.

Ms. Hendricks Loves Teaching!

Ms. Hendricks is a current education major at SCC and enjoyed working with our young readers at West View in small groups each day! Prior to SRC, Ms. Hendricks has served in our after school program at AMES. She knows that she wants to be a teacher!

Reading Success Matters to Ms. Holmes!

Ms. Holmes is a current education major at USC and has done a great job providing our students with effective small group instruction. She has been able to apply strategies she has learned in her course work and the experience has reinforced for her that teaching is her calling!

Ms. Ramirez Makes a Difference

Ms. Ramirez is a current college student and has been an integral part of our Arcadia family. This is her second year serving students in small groups at Arcadia but she has worked at AES for many years in many ways.

Mr. Hollis Helps Students Succeed at AES!

Mr. Hollis, current education major at SCC enjoys working with our students at Arcadia. Prior to SRC he served our students in our after school program. He is an aspiring P.E. teacher!

Readers at Lone Oak Elementary enjoy choosing their books to read!

Loving to Read From Our Free "Just Right For Me" Books!

Each summer, students enrolled in our Summer Reading Camp receive 10 free books to take home to build their own personal libraries. Our Summer Reading Camp librarians organize a "Just Right For Me" book tasting where our students are able to choose five books from a selection that is within their reading range and based on their interests. During their book tasting, students receive their own Cavalier blue District Six Summer Reading Camp book bag to keep their books in to read both at school and at home. During the last week of camp, each student receives a five pack of books including nonfiction choices from Scholastic to take home to enjoy during the rest of our summer.

Ms. Neumann, librarian at Roebuck shares with students the different choices they have available to them for their book tasting.

Research Workshop: Where Our Readers Love to Learn

Our SRC librarians are not only an instrumental part of our students loving to learn to read, they are also essential at helping our students love to learn! Each week our students engage in a Research Workshop where they are able to use informational reading, writing, and research to learn about science topics. Our librarians worked to create Google choice boards for each grade level to use to support their independent research. Their choice boards provided students with hyperlinks to relevant videos, read alouds, and pictures related to their topic of study. See choice boards below.

K5 and 1st Grade - Plants Life Science

2nd Grade - Animals Life Science

3rd Grade- Habitats and Environments

4th Grade - Planet

These are some examples of student research projects at Woodland Heights Elementary. Students really enjoyed learning about animals and their habitats.

Ms. Rollins, our librarian at Lone Oak immersed students in their research workshop that included an observation station where they could observe a tarantula! Students were enthralled with learning about them and enjoyed being immersed in engaging learning experiences and a variety of informational texts including digital and hard copy books!

STEM Out of the Box with Mr. Young!

Our “STEM Out of the Box” weekly challenges are intentionally structured in a project based learning format where students will be able to employ 21st century skills that align with our Profile of the SC Graduate such as critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication. Part of our community partnership grant included funding for our "STEM Out of the Box daily challenges that included integrated read alouds, engaging student materials, and lesson plans created by Elementary Science Coach, Jeff Young. STEM supplies were delivered in a box for each classroom with everything students needed to complete each week's activities. Check out pictures of our favorite STEM Out of Box challenges from this year's Summer Reading Camp!

Math Workshop

When reviewing our student data after our middle of the year iReady assessments we saw that many of our students who would benefit from attending summer reading camp would also benefit from targeted math enrichment as well. Tami Broomall, our Director of Mathematics worked to design a summer reading camp math curriculum aligned with our priority standards for each grade level and integrated each day's lesson with a relevant read aloud and/or video that connected literacy with our math concepts.

To the left and below are pictures of students at Roebuck Elementary's Summer Reading Camp learning different strategies to practice multiplication.

Summer Reading Camp Enrichment Opportunities Take Our Readers to New Heights!

This year our Summer Reading Camp combined with our Summer Enrichment Camp to provide all of our students with engaging enrichment opportunities in art, music, physical education, and guidance. Our students loved making music, designing and testing art objects that could literally fly, and participating in sports taught by Cavalier coaches including soccer, basketball, volleyball, and golf. Take a look at the pictures and videos of our Summer Reading Camp enrichment opportunities.

Our students in art enrichment enjoyed being able to make and try out their own objects of flight. From kites to windsocks, straw rockets, and airplanes our Summer Reading camp students loved designing and flying their creations. A big thank you to Mrs. Weeks, art teacher at Roebuck for her thoughtful planning of this year's art activities and to all of our SRC art teachers including Mrs. Long, Mrs. Stemple, Ms. Graham, and Mrs. Weeks.

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Our summer reading camp students loved learning from our music teachers. In the picture above to the left, students are able to listen to Mr. Helms play the ukulele. In the video above, you see middle school music teacher, Mr. Dembitskyo. He engaged them all camp with interactive songs and opportunities to engage with musical instruments. At Jesse Bobo and West View, music teacher Claire Foote provided students with opportunities to play the drums and at Anderson Mill and Arcadia, Mrs. Nazario kept her students engaged with a variety of musical instruments. We are thankful for the music enrichment our teachers provided to our students.

Coach McGinty works with students on ball handling skills for for volleyball! Our students really enjoyed learning about soccer from Coach Guererro, basketball from Coach Kelly, Volleyball from Coach McGinty, and golf from Coach DePaul.

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Character Counts! Reinforcing and Recognizing Positive Behaviors in Summer Reading Camp

At Roebuck Elementary, character education was embedded throughout Summer Reading Camp. When students came in each day they were greeted with a sign highlighting the character trait they were focusing on each day! Teachers provided them with opportunities to think and write about that character trait in their journals and each afternoon Dr. Gunter and Mrs. Hankins recognized super readers at Roebuck who exhibited excellent character!

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Dr. Swank, our Summer Reading Camp Director at Anderson Mill recognized a student from camp each day for showing great character and allowed them to be a part of the morning announcements.

Guest Readers That Made an Impact!

Our students enjoyed having guest readers stop by to surprise them. Take a look at some of our celebrity, mystery, and surprise readers that popped in this summer to encourage our readers!

Dr. Haun, Mystery Reader!

Third grade students in Ms. Swatzyna's class loved having Dr. Haun pop in as their mystery reader to share one of her favorite read alouds with them.

DHS Graduates Are Some of Our Favorite Readers

Many of our college students that serve as small group reading teachers for our summer reading camp are also Dorman High School graduates and have chosen to give back to their community while also gaining valuable experience. At Woodland Heights, our students loved learning from DHS graduate, Chadwick Johnson.

Wofford Basketball Team Readers

Wofford Basketball team members came to read to Ms. Kiah's class at West View and the students loved hearing from these two scholar athletes!

Jesse Bobo Bears were enthralled to have Cocky, the mascot of the South Carolina Gamecocks come by to read to them! Cocky was a huge hit and our students really enjoyed considering their college futures!

Summer Reading Celebrations!

During our last week of summer reading camp each of our schools celebrated the growth of our students as readers, writers, and researchers with a variety of activities and celebrations. From popsicle parties and author's teas to reading buddy adoptions and performances we celebrated all we learned and the start of a really sweet summer!

Arcadia Fifth Grade Spread Their Wings as Readers!

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Rising fifth grade students at Arcadia provided this moving performance for parents on the last day of camp. Their teachers, Ms. Brown and Ms. Sims taught students the music and helped students create their own set of wings. What a positive and powerful message to end Summer Reading Camp! Our readers truly soared!

Our Super Readers at Arcadia loved celebrating their success in Summer Reading Camp with classroom visits from their families that gave them an opportunity to share their reading logs, their published writing, and their progress on their reading goal!

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Picnic, Passports, and Plenty of Books Helped Lone Oak Purposefully Celebrate Growth

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On our last day of Summer Reading Camp, students and their families were treated to a picnic provided by our District 6 food truck. Families were also invited to take flight on a trip around the world through different countries that our students researched in Summer Reading Camp as they visited their child's classroom and viewed their goal progress, their published writing, and their country research.

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Ms. Wootton Rewards Her West View Student Readers

Ms. Wootton, current college student at USC provided small group instruction for our students at West View during their first week of camp. They loved learning from her and she loved teaching them. In fact, Ms. Wootton came back during the last week of camp and surprised all of her students with a sweet treat Krispy Kreme doughnuts to reward them for their growth!

West View Celebrates Students Throughout SRC

Readers at West View Elementary celebrated the start of Summer Reading Camp with ice cold popsicles and their very own airplanes that they took home! The last day of camp families were invited to an author's tea where students were able to share their published writing and their goal progress!

Super Reader Celebration at Anderson Mill!

Anderson Mill Summer Reading Camp teachers celebrated their Super Heroes with a celebration in their cafeteria with popsicles, super hero photo booth, take home books, and an opportunity to share with their parents all they learned this month.

Galatic Glow Party Rewards Readers at Fairforest Elementary!

Fairforest Elementary director, Mrs. Hollis and literacy coach, Mrs. Register rewarded their readers for their reading progress on iReady and their formative assessments with a Galactic Glow Party with glow rings, snow cones, and snacks!

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