Elementary Reading Block
Each day campers in grades K-4 will build their literacy skills by working on comprehension,
vocabulary, and fluency and playing a variety of literacy-focused games. As their culminating
project campers will create a portfolio of their favorite and/or best activities to display when family
members and other campers go on Gallery Walks through different classrooms.
Curriculum Components:
Comprehension: Campers will read a variety of texts (Wright Group programs Gear Up K-2 and
Wildcats for 3-4) and complete activities that will build their comprehension and give them tools
and strategies to help them do things such as summarize the main idea of a story, connect
information from the text to other sources, use rereading and discussion to clarify ideas, and
provide evidence from the text to support their ideas.
Fluency: Campers will use the K-2nd or 3rd-5th grade levels Tim Rasinski’s Fabuloulsy Famous
Books for Building Fluency program to become more engaged in and confident about reading by
building their comprehension and fluency skills. Campers will read a variety of literature, from
informational texts and famous speeches to songs and poetry, as they use techniques like
mumble reading, echo reading, and buddy reading to increase comprehension by bringing the
texts to life through fluent reading.
Word Warriors: Each week campers will be introduced to a new set of words and have the
opportunity to complete exciting activities to practice using their new vocabulary words so they
can become Word Warriors and win awards and prizes..
Games: In each classroom campers will be able to play four board games that are both fun and
educational.
K-2 Reading Games: Sequence for Kids, Rhyme Thyme, Word for Word Game, and Pop for Sight
Words Game
3-4 Reading Games: Sequence for Kids, Word for Word Game, Don’t Say It, and Scrabble Slam
Books and Novel Activities: The goals of these activities are to increase leisure reading and
build campers' personal libraries by giving them more choice in what books they read at camp.
During the first week of camp elementary campers will each receive three books that they can
read during the day and take home with them at the end of camp. During the final week of camp
elementary campers will attend a Book Fair where they will have a $20 budget to purchase books
of their choice.
Grade
K
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Book Title
Arthur Helps Out
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Clifford, the Firehouse Dog
Big Bug Surprise
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
Farm Flu
Freckle Juice
Anasi the Spider
The Tasty Tale of Chewandswallow
(Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs)
Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and
the Great One
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Falling Up
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other
Fairly Stupid Tales
The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen
of 33rd Street
James and the Giant Peach
Author
Marc Brown
Bill Martin and John Archambault
Norman Birdwell
Julia Gran
Mo Willems
Teresa Bateman
Judy Blume
Gerald McDermott
Rick Barba
Judy Blume
Roald Dahl
Shel Silverstein
Jon Scieszka
Sharon Flake
Roald Dahl
Culminating Project: Throughout the summer campers will save the work that they produce
each week, including graphic organizers and charts, writing pieces, and book summaries. In
addition, they will keep a journal where they complete Quick Writes and reflect on the activities
that they participate in during camp. Each week, teachers will help campers write short stories or
poems that highlight the elements that affected campers most. At the end of camp, campers will
cover the walls of their classroom and the hallway outside with their final work products and
reflections so that family members, staff, and other campers can participate in a Gallery Walk that
showcases the memories that campers made throughout the 23 days of camp.