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

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.




More than 30 examples of activities—both arts and crafts and academic—to use with books

Illustrations for the numerous activities

All the forms necessary to plan and execute a camp

Ideas for the best sources for read-alouds

A timeline that will help readers plan

A bibliography comprised of many different book lists that can be adapted for camp