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

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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 monthsand 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 campand 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.

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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 *

Author Bio

C. Kay Gooch is the librarian at Gullett Elementary School, Austin, TX. Charlotte Massey is a librarian in the Hays CISD School District, TX.