Camp Summer Read: How to Create Your Own Summer Reading Camp

by C. Kay Gooch, Charlotte Massey

Overview

This all-inclusive, how-to book tells you everything you need to know to run your own summer reading camp.

Get students to continue to read during the summer months—and enjoy it! Camp Summer Read: How to Create Your Own Summer Reading Camp is the brainchild of two Texas librarians who have created just such a camp—and have a waiting list of kids who want to attend.

What they offer is a complete, how-to handbook based on their own experiences developing and running a summer reading camp for children. Organized as a checklist, the book is a step-by-step guide that includes everything you need to know to plan and run your own summer reading camp. It includes multiple book lists and read-aloud lists and dozens of book-based activities. It also includes tips on staffing and management and on things as seemingly mundane as assembling the right forms. For those not quite ready to start a camp, the reading activities and ideas presented here can easily be applied in a classroom or home situation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598844474
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/01/2010
Pages:	108
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

C. Kay Gooch is the librarian at Gullett Elementary School, Austin, TX.

Charlotte Massey is a librarian in the Hays CISD School District, TX.

Editorial Reviews

A strong resource for anyone who wants to promote the importance and value of reading during the summer months.” —Midwest Book Review

“Covers nearly every possible detail for starting a summer reading camp. . . . Written in a pleasing conversational text.” —School Library Journal

From the Publisher

Covering nearly every possible detail for starting a summer reading camp, this helpful guide addresses camp length (hours per day to how many days), when and where to hold it, registration, and cost. Other chapters include book suggestions and lists to use when selecting titles, considerations for preparing a wide variety of activities, choosing volunteers, and things to remember when providing snacks. Based on their own teaching, library, and camp experiences, the authors believe that sharing books and reading aloud are not only fun activities, but they also allow young readers to gain oral language skills and background knowledge while making connections. Written in a pleasing conversational text, the book is accompanied by delightful black-and-white stick-figure drawings. The first half of the volume concludes with an outline of step-by-step activities during a day at a summer book camp, with possible modifications given throughout. Forms, letters, a certificate of appreciation, etc., for either public or school librarians and teachers to use when organizing a successful and memorable book camp appear in the second half of the book.—Susan Shaver, Hemingford Public Schools, NE

School Library Journal