Yay! After a reluctant year off, I will again be returning as a "camp counselor" for Camp-Read-A-Lot, a summer reading program for teachers and media specialists put on by MELSA. I will be going to the day camp and lead a discussion about books for fourth and fifth graders.It is on Tuesday, August 6 and will feature author William Alexander!
Here is the schedule as posted as of today on the website http://www.campreadalot.org/:
2013 Camp Read-A-Lot Day Camp Schedule (DRAFT)
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 Welcome
9:00 - 11:00 Morning speaker/booktalks
11:00 - 12:00 Discussion groups: Core List
12:00 Announcements
12:00 - 12:45 Lunch
12:00 - 2:30 Red Balloon Book Sale Open
12:45 Prizes!
12:45 - 2:00 Speaker: Will Alexander
2:00 - 2:30 Book Signing
2:30 - 3:30 Discussion groups: Camper's Choice Titles
3:30 Wrap-up and more prizes
And here is the fourth and fifth grade reading list:
Fiction
Who Could That Be at This Hour by Lemony Snicket
A Boy Called Dickens by Deborah Hopkinson
Goblin Secrets by William Alexander
Unspoken by Henry Cole
Camper’s Choice – Choose one title below to read and review:
On the Road to Mr. Mineo’s by Barbara O’Connor or
Same Sun Here by Silas House and Neela Vaswani
Camper’s Choice – Choose one title below to read and review:
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage or
Case of the Deadly Desperados by Caroline Lawrence .
Camper’s Choice – Choose one title below to read and review:
Giants Beware! By Jorge Aguirre or
Little White Duck by Andrés Vera Martínez
Camper’s Choice – Any title of your choice (fiction or nonfiction) that meets the following criteria:
a. You have not read it before this summer
b. Original copyright is no older than 2011
c. Ideal for classroom use or free reading
d. Avoid highly popular titles, books recently made into movies, major award winners
Nonfiction
Electric Ben by Robert Byrd
Bookspeak!: Poems About Books by Laura Purdie Salas
Camper’s Choice – Choose one title below to read and review:
Chuck Close: Face Book by Chuck Close
Just Behave, Pablo Picasso! by Jonah Winter
Camper’s Choice – Choose one title below to read and review:
Island: A Story of the Galápagos by Jason Chin
A Rock is Lively by Dianna Hutts Aston
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