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IMG_0315.HEICIMG_4223.jpgThis year our theme for Summer Reading Camp is Camp iRead: Lead, Laugh, Learn! 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.
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Anderson Mill is Ready to Learn, Laugh, and Lead!
On our first day of Summer Reading Camp, students and staff were greeted with a visit from their mascot to kick off a month of learning, laughing, and leading!
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Reading is "In Tents" at Fairforest!
Students at Fairforest Elementary are "in tents" readers! They have loved being able to practice independent reading in their classroom tents and on quilts and blankets.
IMG_0823.HEICAt Roebuck Elementary, Mrs. Lanier and Mrs. Henke welcomed their Roebuck Readers in with hats, smiles, and a school full of engaging displays!
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Happy Campers Read Here!
Each afternoon Roebuck Eagles gathered in their cafeteria to celebrate their attendance, their growth, and the good times they had each day in Summer Reading Camp.
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Bobo Bears Are Ready for
S'more Learning!
S'more Learning!
Jesse Bobo Bears came in all smiles ready for s'more learning! Even our mascot was decked out with his hiking stick and backpack ready to explore great new books!
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Getting Comfortable with a Great Book
West View 's Wesley Wildcats are engaged in this year's theme as they cozy up in camping chairs and partner up in tents to read!
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Woodland Heights Students are Ready to Read!!
Students came in laughing and kept smiles on their faces as they read books, earned rewards, and celebrated their growth at WHES!
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Lone Oak's Camp iRead is Off to a Great Start!
Our Lone Oak Lions are all lined up and ready to read at this year's Summer Reading Camp! Our teachers and staff enjoyed wearing our camp tshirts this year to kick off a great start to growing as readers and writers!
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Wonderful Teachers Grow
Wonderful Readers!
Wonderful Readers!
Teachers at Lone Oak Elementary's Summer Reading Camp posed for a group picture. 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!
2023 Summer Reading Camp Staff
2023 Summer Reading Camp Staff
This year we are grateful to be able to combine funding and support from our Enrichment Camp , and Title I and Title IV grant funding under the direction of Mrs. 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 as well as foundational literacy screeners 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 K, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders at AMES, FES, RBES, and WVES as well as current kindergarten and fourth grade students at AES, JBES, LOES, and WHES.
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 one day 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.
STEM teachers at each school two days a week.
MLL 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.
Engaging field trips that align with current science standards in partnership with Mr. Jeff Young and Dr. Scott Taylor at the Lincoln Science Center for every grade level.
IMG_2930.jpgIMG_0324.HEICIMG_0735.heicIMG_5208.HEICMs. Johnson, a reading interventionist at West View Elementary enjoys working with her students in small groups on their writing skills during a reading response opportunity. Each day our students were provided with a small group opportunity that targeted their individual needs.
IMG_9607.HEICCoach Guerrero provided students at every school with an opportunity to learn and practice new soccer skills. He is one of many related arts staff that traveled to schools across the district to ensure they had fun and safe enrichment experiences each day during summer reading camp.
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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!
One way our coaches and teachers engaged students in reading was through interactive and engaging read alouds. Take a look at the video clip of Mrs. Thrower, literacy coach at Jesse Bobo reading Scaredy Squirrel Goes Camping!
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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 Director, Dr. Vicky McLain and coach, Ms. Shante' Costner at Lone Oak Elementary are all smiles as they encourage teachers with a visit from the sunshine cart! 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.
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Summer Reading Camp
Summer Reading Camp
Curriculum Resources
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 resources such as Florida's Center for Reading Research and Scholastic, it is our teachers, coaches, and staff that make the curriculum come to life and connect grade level standards with students' needs and interests. Click the link below or the picture to view this year's 2023 Summer Reading Camp Curriculum Outline.
2023 Summer Reading Camp Curriculum Outline for Teachers
2023 Summer Reading Camp Curriculum Outline for Teachers
a.) ELA: Tier 1 -
* Tier 1 Phonics Workshop - 30 minutes each day
*Use literacy pathways provided by coach to determine targeted areas to focus instruction on. Utilize a gradual release model (I Do, We Do, You Do) to provide explicit, systematic instruction on the targeted skill each day. Use D6 Phonics Word Study Workshop Curriculum for our scope and sequence and for resources. Consider utilizing Florida Center for Reading Research Student Activities for your student guided and independent practice. Consider using strategies from our phonics training provided to K and 1 teachers and academic interventionists found here: Foundational Early Literacy Skills and Strategies
* Tier 1 Reading Workshop - 60 minutes each day
*Use Scholastic Lit Camp Reading provided by SRC Director. Preview lessons in advance and utilize a gradual release model (I Do, We Do, You Do) to provide explicit instruction and utilize small group guided reading groups and texts provided at the end of your Tier 1 whole group instruction to provide opportunities for differentiation and transfer.
*Tier 1 Writing Workshop - 60 minutes each day
*Use the following guide to provide students with support and scaffolding throughout creating their first person narratives.
*Week 1 - Consider using Georgia Heard’s heart map to help students brainstorm ideas they are interested in writing about. Model choosing your own topic aligned to our theme of outdoor adventures to use the heart map with. Consider providing students with an opportunity to structure their narrative in chronological order through Lucy Calkin’s talking across your fingers strategy. Utilize a graphic organizer such as a flow map or BME map to help them organize their ideas and hold their thinking. Conference with students to help them get down their ideas.
*Week 2 - Provide students with support for drafting their narrative. Utilize a gradual release model (I Do, We Do, You Do) modeling for students with your writing topic what and how you would like them to implement the skill/strategy in their own writing. Refer to D6 Writing Workshop resource page for support for mini-lessons and conferencing.
*Week 3 - Provide support to students for revising and editing their narratives. Consider using Lucy Calkin’s narrative writing rubrics and our D6 K-2 Narrative Writing Rubric or D6 3-5 Narrative Writing Rubric to guide your feedback and support.
*Week 4- Provide students with an opportunity to publish their final drafts and share them with their parents during our parent celebration.
b.) ELA: Tier 2/3 - 60 minutes a day - 30 minutes for each group
Use literacy pathways provided by coach to determine targeted areas to focus instruction on. Utilize a gradual release model (I Do, We Do, You Do) to provide explicit, systematic instruction on the targeted skill each day during your Tier 2 WIN time. While you are working with a small group of students, an academic interventionists and/or a pre-service college student will be pushing in to also work with a small group of students on their targeted pathway.
*While students are not in small group, they need to be independently reading and/or working on their iReady learning pathway. ***Please collaborate each week with your literacy coach to determine your instructional materials, progress monitoring, and end of camp assessments.
c.) Math: 45 minutes a day
Use the instructional materials be provided by D6 Math Director, Tami Broomall for your grade level at the link below: 2023 SRC Math Workshop
d.) Research Workshop in collaboration with SRC Librarian - Once a week
Our SRC librarians have worked to create research workshop units of study providing you with digital Google Choice boards for students to explore standards-aligned science topics that will be taught during their next school year as well as graphic organizers to help students hold their ideas and thinking at the link below:. 2023 Summer Reading Camp Research Workshop Standards and Digital Resources
***Please note that the librarian will provide students with opportunities during library time for viewing the resources but will need your support for completing the graphic organizer. During the third week of camp SRC librarians will use the graphic organizers to help students create a multimedia product/presentation that shows what they learned as a group.
e.) STEM Lab - Once a week
Once a week our students will go to their STEM lab teacher to engage in hands on STEM activities our Elem. Science Coordinator, Jeff Young has created. Click the link below to view these by grade level: 2023 SRC STEM Lessons
f.) Related Arts - Once a week
In addition to STEM/Library, once a week our students will also go to P.E. and either Art or Music.
Please click the link below to view schedules:
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Highlights From This Year's Summer Reading Camp!
From June 5 to June 29, 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.
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Phonics/ Word Study Workshop
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 beginning with phonological and phonemic awareness with understanding and identifying the building blocks of language and moving to adding phoneme /grapheme correspondance with phonice using a systematic and explict approach full of a variety of strategies and manipulatives such as Elkonin boxes, magnetic letters, eauthentic decodable texts, small group activities from The Florida Center for Reading Research, and many more!
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Reading Workshop
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.
IMG_2658.jpegIMG_5207.HEICIMG_2922.jpgIMG_2662.jpegIMG_9313.jpgunnamed (2).pngIMG_1394.MOVJesse Bobo kindergarten student, Sydney loved creating her narrative story in her own picture book titled, "My Family Loves Me." She enjoyed reading it at the publishing party Mrs. Navy planned for her. See her video of her reading it aloud above and her front cover and picture with her proud mom below.
Writing Workshop
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. During the last week of summer reading camp, parents were invited into classrooms to hear students read from their published drafts. Check out some of their wonderful writing in the pictures and videos below.
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IMG_1415.HEICIMG_1425.HEICThis student in Mrs. Justice's class was so very proud of how much she wrote during summer reading camp. She showed her parents the pages and pages she wrote of her narrative. Here is just an excerpt of her writer's notebook that included her intentional work structuring her narrative to include a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Making Learning Visible!
Making Learning Visible!
At Fairforest Elementary School and in classrooms across the district, teachers used anchor charts to help make the teaching and learning visible to students. These anchor charts were displayed in the classroom during the lesson and were available to students to refer back to while they were working on their drafts in writing workshop.
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Student Choice Leads to Strong Student Voices!
It is important for students to have opportunities to write about experiences that are important to them. Mac, a student at Anderson Mill created his own book about the day a snake ate his chicken. Take a look at the video below of Mac sharing his published narrative with us during their parent celebration during the last week of camp. Check out the pictures below of student published writing!
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IMG_0327.HEICLiteracy Pathways That Lead to Growth
Literacy Pathways That Lead to Growth
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 phonological awareness and phonics screeners from Heggerty, Kilpatrick's PAST, and LETRS.
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.
Click on the link below to view one of Fairforest Elementary's pathway.
Fairforest Elementary SRC Literacy Pathway Example
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 their teachers. In our Summer Reading Camp Staff Survey that was provided to all teachers and staff that servedin this year's camp, 76% identified targeted small group instruction as the most effective component of summer reading camp that led to students' growth as readers.
Targeted Small Group Reading Instruction That Works
Targeted Small Group Reading Instruction That Works
Using the assessment data and the instructional support provided in the literacy pathways from our coaches, teachers and interventionists are able to provide our students with targeted small group reading instruction every day during our WIN time that aligns directly with what area of reading instruction each small group needs the most support in.
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, MLL 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 and videos below that show a snapshot of our small group teachers in action.
IMG_0160.MOVMrs. Gist at Woodland Heights Elementary worked each day to provide her students with their targeted small group instruction. Take a look at this video that shows her providing explicit instruction to her students on how to decode CVC (consonant, vowel, consonent) words. After her direct instruction, Mrs. Gist provides students with the opportunity to practice and apply the skills learned on their own with guidance and support through differentiated feedback.
20230608_135110.jpg20230608_134345.jpgMrs. Rampersad at Lone Oak Elementary enjoys working with students in her small group focused on comprehension. Students enjoy reading a leveled text in partner pairs focused on the skills they need the most. The small group instruction is designed to provide support while also promoting independent application of the skills learned.
IMG_2606.HEICIMG_2607.HEICLiteracy coach, Allie Thrower at Jesse Bobo elementary school provides targeted reading instruction on blending words to her small group using small slinkies as manipulatives to help students "stretch" out their new words as they practice reading. Our literacy coaches provide invaluable support to our teachers providing modeling and support for effective instruction during teacher's WIN time so they can observe and try out with feedback the strategies they are learning.
Dorman Cavalier Graduates Give Back at SRC
Dorman Cavalier Graduates Give Back at SRC
Our college students have not only been instrumental in providing small group instruction, but they have also served as wonderful role models for our students. Above you will see pictures of Mr. Hollis, USC Upstate college pre-service teacher serving at Arcadia Elementary and Mr. Johnson, Citadel college student serving at Jesse Bobo Elementary. Our students benefit from seeing Dorman graduates who are successful college students who choose to give back to the community that invested in their education. Cavaliers Forever!
IMG_2597.JPEGMiss Wootton, one of our college students who served at West View worked diligently to administer phonological awareness and phonics screeners to her kindergarten and first grade students she served each day in small group. Once she knew what areas students needed support in, she used engaging and research-based small group learning games from Florida's Center for Reading Research as well as district curriculum resources for targeted small group instruction to help support her student's growth. Wootton's Literacy Pathway Growth
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MLL Small Group Instruction
MLL Small Group Instruction
Our Community Partnership Grant from the SCDE provided funding for us to provide MLL teachers to students at Arcadia, Fairforest, and Lone Oak Elementary. This support for students who are multi language learners and are working to build fluency and comprehension in English.
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Summer Is Not a Bummer with Guest Author, Cynthia Robinson
Summer Is Not a Bummer with Guest Author, Cynthia Robinson
One of the highlights for our first grade students in summer reading camp was a guest author visit from Cynthia Robinson who visited all 8 of our summer reading camp schools and provided all first grade students with a copy of her book, Summer Is Not a Bummer! Students enjoyed her enthusiastic read alouds and loved having their own autographed copy of the book to take home with them. This book was a great fit for first grade students as it gave them lots of ideas for summer experiences they could write about in their personal narratives and also provided them with practice sounding out rhyming words using their new onset-rime skills.
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image000002.JPGFree Student Book Fair with Bedford Falls!
Free Student Book Fair with Bedford Falls!
Each summer, students enrolled in our Summer Reading Camp receive free books to take home to build their own personal libraries. This year we partnered with Bedford Falls Book Fairs to provide our students with a free book fair with choices that included picture books, easy readers, nonfiction texts, and beginning chapter books. Our Summer Reading Camp librarians organize a "Just Right For Me" book fair 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 free book fair, 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.
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Library Research Workshop:
Library Research Workshop:
Where Our Readers Love to Learn
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. Click on the left link to see an example of first grade, rising second grade's
Habitats Google Research Boards.
Click on the link to see each grade level's choice boards and other curriculum resources our summer reading camp librarians created below:
2023 Summer Reading Camp Research Workshop Curriculum
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Math Workshop
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. Take a look at math workshop in this year's Summer Reading Camp!
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STEM In
STEM In
Summer Reading Camp!
Summer Reading Camp!
Our STEM weekly challenges and engaging activities 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 four STEM summer reading camp teachers who rotate between two schools each, providing all students with a weekly STEM related arts. Our STEM teachers work under the direction of Mr. Jeff Young, our Elementary Science Director who created challenges that included integrated read alouds, engaging student materials, and current standards aligned lesson plans. Check out pictures of our favorite STEM Out of Box challenges from this year's Summer Reading Camp!
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Summer Reading Camp
STEM Field Trips!
STEM Field Trips!
One of our goals for this year's summer reading camp was to provide students in each grade level with a district field trip that aligned with current science standards and provided them with an opportunity to engage in authentic inquiry. In partnership with Mr. Phillip Ward with our District 6 Cragmoor Farms, Dr. Scott Taylor with the Lincoln Planetarium, and Mr. Jeff Young, our Elementary Science Director we were able to provide students with the following field trips:
Kindergarten: Field Trip to the DFC Pond
First Grade: Field Trip to the Farm
Second Grade: Field Trip to the DFC Hydroponic Greenhouses
Third and Fourth Grade: Field Trip to the Planetariums
Check out the following pictures of this year's farm field trips!
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Literacy Learning Lab for Teachers
During this year's summer reading camp all elementary teachers were invited to attend our summer reading camp literacy learning lab open house at any of our 8 summer reading camp sites during their designated date. This open house provided teachers with an opportunity to see Tier 1 phonics instruction, reading and writing workshop, authentic research, as well as targeted small group intervention aligned with each student's needs. In addition to classroom observations, teachers also had an informal opportunity to discuss and reflect on what they observed and to collaborate with other colleagues as well as their school's literacy coach. Renewal credit was also provided.
Below are a few examples from teacher responses on their SRC reflection survey asking "How have you grown as a teacher during this year's Summer Reading Camp?"
"With interventionists and Allie pushing into our classrooms during WIN Times, we've been able to not only work together, but also learn from one another by getting to observe each other's small groups."
"I did not have the opportunity to participate in the LETRS training since I am an upper elementary teacher, BUT I am now able to witness firsthand the benefits Phonics Instruction has for all of our kids, even the high flyers. Some kids that I did not expect to struggle, struggled. Our kids have been taught that struggling means they are growing and overcoming challenges is a part of effective learning."
"Teachers are life long learners, and I have really enjoyed using the Florida Center for Reading Research Student Activities and the phonics training. The Florida Center has really opened my eyes to activities that are fun for students while learning. They are easy to prep and understand from a teacher perspective, and engaging for the students."
"Full disclosure: I was honestly dreading teaching SRC and really annoyed at myself for volunteering to do it. But it was such a wonderful experience! I don't mean to make it sound like rainbows and unicorns. The kids had a lot of areas of needed growth. We had to work hard and really focus on those areas to help fill in some gaps. There were times that were super tough. But, I got an opportunity to really practice pinpointing specific areas where those babies needed some support. AND THEN! I got to practice creating or finding and implementing lessons that met those students right where they were and help to pull them up to where they needed to be. I had a chance to think through whole phonics lessons and figure out which parts were best taught in small groups and which components would be great for a whole group lesson. And, the laser focus on students' needs at Reading Camp, and not all of the "other stuff" that comes along with teaching, helped me remember why I started teaching in the first place, and gave me a refreshed and renewed perspective on the significance of this calling."
"Teaching SRC gave me the opportunity to use strategies that I use in my classroom with new ones that I learned while teaching this summer. I look forward to using them in my classroom this school year."
"I have really enjoyed using the phonics program. It is terrific on zoning on where the students are weak and layig a proper foundation to continue to build on."
"I have grown as a teacher/professional this year by first accepting the challenge to teach SRC for the first time! :) I have continued to learn how to be flexible especially during the fast pace of SRC, organize and prepare lesson materials using various resources and strategies to best support the student in their reading growth, assess the student's progress with practice of different pre and post assessments, quick checks and by applying good listening skills. Overall, meeting the student right where they are and connecting with them in a way that creates a positive learning environment."
"I have never used Fountas and Pinnell with students, so I was able to develop an understanding of how this program works. I also learned so much from watching Mrs. Kelly as she taught phonics lessons to our rising 1st grade class using the knowledge she gained from LETRS training. I would love to have the opportunity to participate in the LETRS program in the future."
Summer Reading Camp Enrichment Opportunities Engage Our Students in the Arts!
Summer Reading Camp Enrichment Opportunities Engage Our Students in the Arts!
Once again 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, creating colorful outdoor themed art projects, 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.
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IMG_9620.HEICUtilizing a Tiered Model for Summer Reading Camp Counseling
Utilizing a Tiered Model for Summer Reading Camp Counseling
This year in Summer Reading Camp we wanted to ensure that all of our students who were enrolled in summer reading camp and were identified as receiving tier 2 or 3 counseling services from either our guidance counselors or our school psychologists were able to continue receiving services once each week. Our students' mental health matters and for students to be able to make gains as readers and writers they must feel safe, feel loved, and have their social and emotional needs met. This year we utilized two guidance counselors, Mrs. Karen Gregory from Pauline Glenn Springs and Mrs. Stephanie Zajac from Lone Oak Elementary who each traveled to four schools (one each day) to provide targeted support to our students. Take a look at some pictures of their work below:
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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!
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Anderson Mill's SRC Celebration!
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Fairforest's SRC Celebration!
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Jesse Bobo's SRC Celebration!
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Lone Oak's SRC Celebration!
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Roebuck's SRC Celebration!
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West View's SRC Celebration!
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Woodland Heights' SRC Celebration!
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Arcadia's SRC Celebration!
Due to construction and lack of adequate parking for our parents, our celebration at Arcadia was a super sweet S'more party celebrating the growth of all of our readers!
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Summer Reading Camp Growth Outcomes
We are very proud of the growth of our 919 students enrolled in summer reading camp. Each student was able to share with their parents their summer reading camp growth, not just in the numerical data showing their growth, but also their overall experience as readers and writers. Take a look at the video and SRC data report below of one of our Fairforest students. He was so excited about how much he grew as a reader and a writer and his excitement for camp was contagious!
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IMG_1490.MOVOf our 760 students who attended the last week of camp and took our final camp assessments including our iReady diagnostic assessment or our DRA reading assessment, 90.5% of students showed growth in at least one area. Our camp overall attendance rate was 78.3% with an overall absent rate of 21%.
See graphs below of our data for this year's Summer Reading Camp.
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