Rewatch the videos from Jennifer Serravallo's 2020 Summer Camp focused on Exploring Mentor Texts for Reading and Writing Strategies.
Jen worked with a full roster of camp counselors to help everyone get the most from the experience. Guest camp counselors included Lainie Gatch Powell and Molly Feeney Wood, two consultants expert in Jen’s work. Plus Clarisa Leal, Cristy Rauseo, and Nicole Sanchez, members of Jen’s bilingual consulting team, to support teachers who support children in Spanish.
The 2020 Summer Camp ran from July 27–August 7, 2020 in the Reading and Writing Strategies Facebook Group. Not a member? -- Click below to join.
Rewatch the 2020 Summer Camp videos via the links below.
You can also revisit the recap blogs for the 2018 Summer Camp and 2019 Summer Camp.
Week 1, Day 1
The focus on this day was strategies 2.17 and 6.17 from The Reading Strategies Book and Islandborn.
Watch the video here.
Spanish teachers: Watch Claria's videos for Lola (en español) aquí.
Week 1, Day 2
The focus on this day was strategies 5.15 and 7.19 from The Reading Strategies Book and My Footprints?
Watch the video here.
Spanish teachers: Check out Christy’s video discussion of My Daddy Has A Motorbike.
Week 1, Day 3
The focus for this day was strategy 6.23 from The Reading Strategies Book and the ways that character contradictions can help develop a deeper sense of who the character is.
Watch the video here.
Spanish teachers: Check out Clarisa Leal's discussion en español of Be Bold! Be Brave!
Week 1, Day 4
The focus for this day was strategy 1.16 from the The Reading Strategies Book and Alexander and Nelson's The Undefeated.
Watch the video here.
Spanish teachers: see Nicole's video about Soñadores by Morales here.
Week 1, Day 5
The focus for this day was strategies 4.16 and 7.23 from The Reading Strategies Book and The Proudest Blue?
Watch the video here.
**there is no Spanish video for this day!
Week 2, Day 1
The focus for this day was strategies 9.31 and 6.7 from The Writing Strategies Book and Islandborn.
Watch the video here.
Be sure to check out Nicole’s video in Spanish for those of you sharing Lola with students.
Week 2, Day 2
The focus for this day was strategies 2.17 and 3.8 from The Writing Strategies Book and My Footprints.
Watch the video here.
Spanish educators, here's Cristy's conversation about Mi Papi Tiene Una Moto and El Libro De Estrategias De Escritura.
Week 2, Day 3
The focus on this day was strategies 5.28 and 4.10 from The Writing Strategies Book and Frybread.
Watch the video here.
Watch Clarisa's conversation about Be Bold! Be Brave! for Spanish educators.
Week 2, Day 4
The focus for this day was strategies 3.37 and 6.24 from The Writing Strategies Book and The Undefeated.
Watch the video here.
Spanish educators, here is Nicole's conversation about Soñadores.
Week 2, Day 5
On the last day of summer camp the focus was strategies 1.13 and 7.4 from The Writing Strategies Book and The Proudest Blue.
In this final video Jen shares her thoughts about what she hopes are the main takeaways from the two weeks of Summer Camp 2020.
Watch the video here.
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