Assessments Opportunities to assess campers’ progress are woven throughout LitCamp lessons and activities. Measuring progress and responding to where campers are at key points in their LitCamp journeys are crucial to their individual and collective success. There are a number of ways you can assess where your campers are at the beginning of LitCamp and to monitor progress incrementally across the program and at the end of camp. Foundational and Word-Reading Skills Check-Ins During the Reading Power portion of the daily lessons, campers review, then practice, key foundational or word-reading skills following an aggregated scope and sequence. The skills covered are those campers likely encountered in the grade they recently completed. Reviewing, then putting the skills into practice in fun whole-group games, ensure that campers are ready for success in the academic year ahead. There are two skills checks-ins available for each grade. Check-ins—both leaders’ versions with answers and campers’ versions—are downloadable from the LitCamp website. It is recommended that you administer an initial skills check-in early in the first week of camp to determine where your campers are, and then again at the end of camp to measure their progress.
Fluency To determine where your campers are at the start of camp, model reading the decodable passage provided in Lesson 1, then invite individual campers or small groups of campers to leverage one of the fluency techniques and read the passage back to you. To measure progress incrementally and at the end of camp, leverage the same technique using either the same decodable passage or one provided in a later lesson.
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