Join a Super Why Reading Camp to play, learn and grow

About Super Why Reading Camps

The Super Why Reading Camps build on the signature early literacy approach of the popular “Super Why” television series, extending its unique interactive reading approach into the community.

Participating in a Super Why Reading Camp will not only help children build everyday literacy skills, but the camps are held over the summer to help incoming kindergartners get ready for the school year.

Each day at Reading Camp, children transform into one of the Super Why characters and take part in reading-based, branded Super Why crafts, games and songs that practice the targeted early literacy skill of the day:

Early childhood development in Arizona

In the fall of 2019, Teaching Strategies Gold indicated there was a large percentage of Arizona’s young children that weren’t meeting widely used standards for reading readiness. An estimated 65% of four year olds did not meet expectations in language use, and 70% did not meet literacy expectations for children of that age group.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused an enormous gap in learning for a lot of students and made transitions into kindergarten or new schools more difficult. Another goal of this program is to reinforce learning habits and help ease the transition into kindergarten for students and their families.

With this program, young students will get familiar with being in a school setting. They will learn how to participate in group activities, learn rules and routines that are applied at school, as well as receive the opportunity to engage with other children.

Play, learn and grow

In the Super Why Early Literacy camps, we focus on not only these classroom and social aspects but preparing children with the five pillars of literacy as well.

• Phonemic Awareness: This means being able to listen and identify the different sounds that make up speech.
• Phonics: While this is similar to the first pillar, phonics focuses on matching sounds to specific letters.
• Fluency: Fluency is all about being able to read the words, understand them, in a reasonable amount of time.
• Vocabulary: Having a large vocabulary opens the door to extending reading levels and continuing to learn.
• Comprehension: Once students get more fluency and vocabulary in their literacy diets, they will be able to work on comprehension. Think of comprehension as light bulb moments, where a child is able to say, “I understand” and retain what they’ve learned.

Register for FREE!

If you or anyone you know is interested in Super Why Reading camps for their young ones, review the list below of participating organizations and their locations to find the best fit for you. Follow each link for the camp of your choice to register for this amazing opportunity.