2010 Summer Reading Camps

Welcome to 2010 Summer Reading Camps, a site to discover how third grade students with reading difficulties can improve and achieve! Summer Reading Camps offer students who scored a Level 1 on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) opportunities to advance and improve their reading skills. During the Summer Reading Camp experience, students are guided through skills in the areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension, providing these students high quality reading instruction in order for them to achieve the goal of reading on grade level.

Please contact your local school district office for specific details within your school district.

District Summer Reading Camp Contacts

Survey 1

The district contact for summer reading camps must create a reading camp schedule that facilitates intensive reading intervention. The suggested model incorporates adequate time, research based intervention programs, effective supplementary materials, and progress monitoring to provide instruction according to student needs. The appropriate course code for students served in summer reading camp is 5010050.

Suggested Instructional Time

• Number of weeks:
  6 to 8
• Days per week:
  4
• Overall time per day:
  6 hours
• Instructional time per day:
  5½ hours

Time for Instruction and Student Practice

• Total time for intensive reading instruction:
  A minimum of ¾ of total instructional day with a minimum of two hours
• Total time for reading enrichment: independent reading, teacher read-aloud, mentoring, technology:
  A maximum of ¼ of instructional day
• Formal Assessment:
  No more than 30 minutes per day

Essential Components for a Successful Summer Reading Camp

• Print Rich Environment

  Provide media center access to students and leveled libraries in the classroom to enhance and support reading instruction during Summer Reading Camp.

• Teachers

  The district and school designees are encouraged to choose qualified teachers and reading coaches that are effective in teaching reading skills to struggling students and utilize expert knowledge to tailor instruction to student needs.  Teachers that have successful teaching experience and have reading certification or endorsement are the preferred instructors to be selected for summer reading camps.  Teachers can use the summer reading camp teaching experience as part of their practicum for the reading endorsement.

  For the benefit of both students and teachers, it is recommended that the teacher to student ratio not exceed 1:12.

• Mentors

  The use of mentors in summer reading camps is instrumental in the reinforcement of reading skills and enhances a student’s self-esteem.  Teachers or reading coaches should plan for the mentors; therefore essential materials for mentor visits need to be prepared prior to the meeting day.
  1. Students must not be removed from the classroom during reading instruction.  Mentors can provide one on one mentoring for a student in the classroom.
  2. The principal or reading coach needs to have a schedule of mentor visits and provide that schedule to teachers.
  3. The school needs to provide reading materials/activities for all students receiving a mentor.  These activities should be placed in bins in the teachers’ classrooms for easy access.

Please remember to gather all relevant information prior to initial database input, since the plan can not be submitted in multiple sessions. Also, the required fields in the database must be completed, for the district plan to successfully upload into the summer reading camp database. If you have additional questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Hope Colle at (850) 245-0503 or via email at .

District Data Collection Form