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Students at Camp Sharigan Captured 120 Words Yesterday

9/20/2019

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At the Camp Sharigan reading camp yesterday in Corpus Christi, Texas, the children captured 120 tricky words. We never tell children that they missed a word; we tell them that the word is tricky and they need to capture it. When they capture a tricky word, they learn to spell it and understand its use and meaning using a 4-step process. 

 After they learn a tricky word, they write the word neatly in their best handwriting, decorate it with colored pencils and cute rubber stamps, and hang it on a make-believe poison ivy vine. Each leaf on the vine can have anywhere from one to five words written on it. Thank you to the wonderful volunteers, and to St. John's United Methodist Church, which provides space and funding to make this non-religious program possible. 
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This picture shows the poison ivy vine from just one day, yesterday's 120 captured words. Wonderful work by the children who are learning to read better and better every day.

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This is the Match the Sound station at Camp Sharigan, where students train their brains to think of words in terms of sounds. 

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