LitCamp’s philosophy is rooted in educational equity and a commitment to supporting high-quality education for all learners. The LitCamp philosophy is that we are creating a strengths-based environment for all our special education students, not a deficit model. LitCamp’s signature commitment to the confluence of social-emotional and academic skill-building means that from the moment a student enters into the LitCamp community, they feel a profound sense of belonging, safety, and joy.
LitCamp includes rich and varied opportunities for campers to build their speaking and listening skills as they discuss or experience authentic stories from a wide array of culturally responsive and dignifying perspectives. Campers build language skills during the Opening and Closing Campfires that are the bookends of the LitCamp day, as well as during the lesson components Bring the Text to Life and Community Lit. Here, campers play word games, learn new songs and chants, and participate in intentional conversations. During Reading Power and Bunk Time, campers acquire strategies to read fluently and familiarize themselves with concepts of written language with culturally responsive authentic texts. Each day, they are supported in their comprehension and analysis of text through engaging lessons that utilize a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction texts to teach the skills and strategies that allow them to approach and understand new texts in all genres. Finally, the Writing Power component guides students to draw and write daily, giving them purposeful practice in writing and sharing their language in a supported environment.
Each component of a LitCamp lesson deepens the learning, engagement, and agency of all students with special needs.
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