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[yellowdove]

What about something by Roald Dahl? Possibly James and the Giant Peach or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Those would be suitable for sure. I'm not sure on the availability, however.

[eljuero]

Thanks everyone - all interesting suggestions I must say.

I sometimes wish these repeating topics were "stickied" better. Actually maybe they are but I haven't invested enough time into the mechanics of the board to know!

[RedKristin]

[charliebrown84]

What about "Alice in Wonderland?" The language is easy to understand and the situations are weird enough to keep their interest. Plus you have a movie to use as a reference and as a 'prize' at the end of the book.

[Sophos]

The suggestions in this thread are really interesting. I have only been teaching in Korea for a month and I have my first summer camp coming up soon so am scouting round for ideas. I really like the pirate theme and I would love to base some of the camp on a book - a Roald Dahl book would be great as I loved reading his stuff when I was a kid.

However, as I am really new to teaching I am a bit unsure of how I could put this into practice. To those of you who have used novels as a starting point for your camps - how did you do it?

1. Did you base the whole camp around the book or just one or two days? 2. Did the students have to read the whole book and if so did they do so in class or at home on their own or what? Also, who paid for the books?
3. Or did you show them the movie of the book and then read selected chapters and have activities based on that?

Sorry if the questions are a bit dumb! Any advice would be much appreciated!

[Sophos]

Also, RedKristin can I take you up on your kind offer of sharing your workbook for your Matilda camp please?

[RedKristin]

The structure of my Matilda camp was more or less as follows

-Reading Days: we only read about a third of the book total: the intro, The First/Second/Third Miracle, and the end.
-Movie Days: we would watch the part of the movie and, at the end of the camp, we watched the whole thing.

-Vocabulary: They had to do it the night before along with comprehension questions. We'd check it together before starting in on reading or the movie. The metaphors needed quite a bit of clarifying.
-Activities: Making Roald Dahl style insults, pretending to have superpowers, comparing to characters in the book, etc
-Big Project: Making a story about a superpower with the setting being a school (like Matilda)

Doing this, I never really had much lag time, the advanced students were challenged by the vocab while lower levels could watch the movie to understand the lit.

edit: Sophos just PM me your email!

[Sophos]

Hi RedKristen - unfortunately I can't pm you as I don't have enough posts apparently Is there another way I could get that book off you? Sounds like a great idea for camp!

[DorkothyParker]

First grade like 8 years old, right? Some of these suggestions I didn't even read till 5th or 6th grade!

The Magic Tree House Series, Junie B, or Andrew Lost are all great book series. There are a lot of books in the sets so if you think they are too easy, you can do 2 or 3. My classes (9 years old) generally spent at least 1 month (2X/week) on one book, though.