COLA-LitSumm-01 - Camp Pageturner: Summer Reading & Writing at the CLC
Course Description
Camp Pageturner - Summer 2025
At Camp Pageturner, children spend each week exploring their passions through a literacy lens. Each day includes all the summer fun you’d expect, like field games or trips to the pool. It also includes lots of opportunities to have fun reading and writing. Throughout the week, campers take part in fun and motivating reading and writing activities based on that week’s theme. Participants read books, use their imaginations, and take part in all sorts of creative writing.
Again in 2025, the CLC is offering:
- Science Theme Collaboration with KEEPERS & the Leitzel Center! Your child can explore inventing, engineering, and math AND reading and writing–all wrapped up in a typical summer camp experience! This option is available only for a 'mini-camp' session July 1-3. To participate, enroll your child in the morning session of Camp Pageturner for that week and the afternoon session of KEEPERS. Students will be walked from Camp Pageturner to KEEPERS by Camp staff.
- 1-1 Literacy Support: Want individual reading/writing instruction for your child? Register for our Pageturners 1-1 Literacy Support option. Students will meet with a CLC Program Leader for 4 30-minute sessions during camp hours. This option costs $50/week and will appear in the shopping cart after adding a camp session. 1-1 Literacy Support is not available during the short week of July 1-3. A student purchasing the 1-1 Literacy Support option must also be enrolled in the corresponding session of Camp Pageturner.
Each week on Friday at 4 pm we invite families to attend a showcase or performance. Camp will still end at the regular time, and it will be recorded if a parent can't make it.
Camp is held at the Community Literacy Center, 109 Morill Hall, 62 College Rd, Durham, NH. Details regarding drop off locations, times, and other information is sent from program staff via email to enrolled participant parents/guardians before the session start date. Please be sure the email address provided during enrollment is that of a parent/legal guardian, not the participating student.
Camp Pageturner - Summer 2025
| Sessions | Theme | Dates | Times | Grades (entering Fall 2025) |
Cost | Registration Close Date (unless full earlier) |
| Session 1: Play on Words | Playwriting | June 23-27 | Mon-Fri, 8:15am-4:30pm | Gr 1-5 | $300 | May 23 |
| Session 2A Full Day: Whimsical Words | Reading & Writing | June 30-July 3 | Mon-Thurs, 8:15am-4:30pm | Gr 1-5 | $240 | May 30 |
| Session 2B Half Day: Whimsical Words* | Reading & Writing | June 30-July 3 | Mon-Thurs, 8:15am-12pm | Gr 2-5 | $120 | May 30 |
| Session 3: YIP, YIP, Hooray! | Inventing | July 7-11 | Mon-Fri, 8:15am-4:30pm | Gr 1-5 | $300 | June 7 |
| Session 4: GLOBE-al Nature Writers | Environment | July 14-18 | Mon-Fri, 8:15am-4:30pm | Gr 1-5 | $300 | June 14 |
| Session 5: Write, Camera, Action | Film | July 21-25 | Mon-Fri, 8:15am-4:30pm | Gr 1-5 | $300 | June 21 |
| Session 6: Mathemagicians | Math & Magic | July 28-Aug 1 | Mon-Fri, 8:15am-4:30pm | Gr 1-5 | $300 | June 28 |
*This session is only available for students who have also enrolled in KEEPERS. Please note the grades entering criteria. Enroll in the afternoon session of KEEPERS here: KEEPERS
Review the blocks below for information and instructions on enrolling, session descriptions, CampDoc, and Travel.
To request a drop from a youth program, email youth.programs@unh.edu or contact the Program Manager (info below). Please include the full name of the participant and clearly state the camp and session(s) to be dropped. Please be aware of our Summer Youth Program Payment & Refund Procedures.
For more information and program questions, contact: literacy.center@unh.edu
For the program website: Community Literacy Center