{"id":1255,"date":"2015-04-06T15:56:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T19:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2015-04-06T15:56:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T19:56:48","slug":"making-the-reading-and-writing-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/making-the-reading-and-writing-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Reading and Writing Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-headline\">\n<h3>After School Program Helps Students with\u00a0Reading and Writing<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p>Wes-Del Elementary Comp Camp was begun several years ago by Shirley Thacker.\u00a0 Comp Camp is held in the spring, fall, and in the summer as an after school program.\u00a0 Mrs. Thacker is a certified presenter with the Indiana Writing Project and has presented her information in Washington D.C.\u00a0\u00a0 This program was started at our elementary school because Mrs. Thacker felt it was so important for students to make the connection between reading and writing.\u00a0 She introduced mentoring texts to the faculty and many educators have taken her lead in the classroom through cycles of writing using these texts.\u00a0 Comp Camp meets two afternoons a week and students sign up quickly to attend.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There is a celebration with parents at the end of Comp Camp, and each student reads their favorite written piece to the audience.\u00a0 This has fostered a love of writing in all who attend.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenges or Obstacles:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>None<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Benefits and Successes:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Student writing has increased throughout the building.<\/li>\n<li>Student work is displayed in the hallways.<\/li>\n<li>Students who have attended Comp Camp want to return each time it is offered.<\/li>\n<li>Children have a love of writing and this is noted in their comments about writing and in their desire to continue to write.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Submitted by:<\/strong>\u00a0Shirley Thacker,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/elem.wes-del.k12.in.us\">Wes-Del Elementary<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After School Program Helps Students with\u00a0Reading and Writing Wes-Del Elementary Comp Camp was begun several years ago by Shirley Thacker.\u00a0 Comp Camp is held in the spring, fall, and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41,48,17,27,30],"tags":[58,94,106],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-showcase","category-elementary","category-instructional","category-reading","category-wes-del-elementary","category-writing","tag-after-school-activity","tag-reading","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}