Adventure Awaits

Young learners sharpen crucial academic skills and discover new abilities in small classes taught by creative, experienced teachers. The highly respected Orton-Gillingham Approach to phonics as well as practice in fundamental written language is at the heart of the young child's summer experience. Exciting activities in art and music provide additional ways of tapping creativity in a caring, fun-filled atmosphere.

Tuition: $1975
Time:  8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Appropriate for rising first and second grade students.

A lifetime of reading adventure begins for your child this summer!

Confidence grows and self-esteem soars in three weeks of direct instruction in decoding, comprehension, fluency and vocabulary. Highly skilled and experienced The Schenck School and ReadSource trained teachers and tutors use strategies to build and strengthen reading ability in a nurturing, fun, and small-group setting.

Key components of Reading Adventures - Rising 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade Students:

• 8:1 student/teacher ratio
• Ability grouped
• Phonics 
• An appropriate chapter book is read together during camp (vocabulary)
• Morning Work - This is similar a typical school day at The Schenck School. The program “contracts time” and is personalized for each student. (Comprehension passages, practice with inference, main idea, sequencing, comparing/contrasting, making predictions)
• Fluency - plays, poems and more to increase fluency
• Reading Comprehension - different passages covering strategies

Tuition: $1975
Time:  8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Appropriate for rising third - fifth grade students

This program builds reading comprehension and written expression skills for middle school students who need extra support in these areas.

Written expression skills:

• organization
• idea generation
• grammar

Reading comprehension:

• parts of a novel
• plot structure
• vocabulary
• finding main idea
• drawing conclusions and making inferences

During the day your child will work on written expression in both expository and creative writing pieces. They’ll read a novel in small groups along with getting direct instruction and working independently on comprehension skills. This novel can often count towards your child’s summer reading assignments.

Your child will also be working on basic functions of Google Drive along with keyboarding. Assistive technology will be introduced such as speech to text, text to speech, Learning Ally, and Grammarly.

Tuition: $1975
Time:  8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Appropriate for rising sixth - eighth grade students

The ​Reading Adventures Online offers online small-group, three to four students, sessions that provide instruction using The Schenck School Reading Model. 

The Schenck School Reading Model encompasses comprehensive reading instruction anchored in the Orton-Gillingham Approach and includes intensive practice in phonology, morphology, fluency, comprehension, and written expression.  Reading Adventures Online is designed for the struggling reader with little or no exposure to the Orton-Gillingham Approach.  This program is offered to rising 3rd through rising 5th graders.

Each session is taught by a highly skilled and experienced Schenck School-trained teacher or tutor in a nurturing, fun, online classroom. Classes meet for two hours. The last 30 minutes of each session will consist of independent work time to practice the concepts taught so far and 1:1 fluency practice with the teacher.

Students will need access to consistent, high-performing internet and a laptop or iPad.

Tuition: $1675
Times:  There will be two sessions to choose from:  8:00 - 10:00 a.m. 

Appropriate for rising third - fifth grade students.

Appropriate for rising third - fifth grade students

Morphology Intensive Adventures offers online small-group, three to four students, sessions that provide instruction using The Schenck School Reading Model. The Schenck School Reading Model encompasses comprehensive reading instruction anchored in the Orton-Gillingham Approach and includes intensive practice in morphology, fluency, comprehension, and written expression.  Morphology Intensive Adventures is designed for students who have had previous phonics instruction and would benefit from more advanced practice working with prefixes, roots, suffixes, and suffix rules. This program is offered to rising 4th through rising 6th graders.

Each session is taught by a highly skilled and experienced Schenck School-trained teacher or tutor in a nurturing, fun, online classroom. Classes will meet for two hours each day of camp. The last 30 minutes of each session will consist of independent work time to practice the concepts taught so far and 1:1 fluency practice with the teacher.   

Students will need access to consistent, high-performing internet and a laptop or iPad. 

Tuition:  $1675
Times:  10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. or  1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 

Appropriate for rising fourth - sixth grade students.

Our Summer Adventures camps are available to:

• Current students of The Schenck School
• The Schenck School alumni
• Students who do not attend The Schenck School

No.

While Summer Adventures is geared toward the struggling reader, campers do not need a diagnosis of dyslexia to attend.

Once you have applied and we have received the Teacher Confidential Evaluation form for the camp you have applied to, our Coordinators will review your application. We must have the Confidential Teacher Evaluation form before reviewing your application.  An email will be sent to you once this process has been completed.  We will then schedule an informal screening.

The following campers will be screened:

• Reading Adventures in-person campers in rising 1st - 5th grades
• Reading Adventures - Online 
• Morphology Intensive Adventures -Online 

The following campers will not be screened:

• Campers currently enrolled at The Schenck School
• Alumni of The Schenck School
• Applicants that have already been screened for the 2024-2025 school year
• Literature & Creative Writing campers
• Middle Learning Adventures campers

Summer Adventures is a 3-week camp.

• All Summer Adventures academic camps are 3+ week (16 days) camps.
• Afternoon Adventures camps (fun camp-like offerings from 1:00-3:00pm) are offered on a weekly basis.

We understand that summers are a very busy time and that some schools may not be out of for summer once camp has started. However, it is most beneficial for campers to be able to attend all 3+ weeks. We cannot prorate for missed days. It is possible to miss days on toward the end of camp, but not at the beginning.

No. :)

The only thing your child will need to bring is a water bottle, a jacket/sweatshirt, a healthy snack, and a readiness to learn.  We will supply all the rest!

Afternoon Adventures are one-week, 1:00-3:00pm,  traditional type camp offerings.  Registration for Afternoon Adventures will open in April.

In summers past, we have offered camps like, soccer, dance, jewelry making, lacrosse, Harry Potter, Art, Star Wars, Pink-a-li-cious, Mad Science, Math Fun, STEM, Cooking, etc.  These may not be the exact Afternoon Adventures offered this summer but they give you a good idea of the type of camps that we will offer.

Yes! 

We will send out a ZIP Code list of campers in April that you can refer to to help organize your carpool.

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