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Writing Intensive Camp

This camp is intended to extend the school year for the student in rising grades 4-8 who would benefit from targeted intervention in the skills that contribute to written expression development.
This four-week, half-day camp will focus on key areas that support the writing process, including grammar, mechanics and sentence structure; handwriting and keyboarding fluency; and genre-specific strategy instruction.

Woven throughout the camp experience will be intentional building of metacognitive strategies, such as self-monitoring, positive self-talk and goal setting. In addition, executive functioning skills necessary for writing tasks will be embedded, including skills such as goal-directed persistence, sustained attention and organization.

This half-day program (8:15am - 12:00pm) has the option to add Camp Beech Creek in the afternoon.
Dates: June 16 - July 18  (No camp June 30 - July 4)
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. 
Cost for program: $1,750
Deposit: $300

PROGRAM DETAILS

What Skills Are Targeted?
  • Grammar and sentence structure
  • Handwriting and / or keyboarding fluency
  • Mechanics (i.e., punctuation, capitalization)
  • Spelling in the context of writing
  • Paragraph structure
  • Editing and revising
  • Self-regulation strategies
  • Executive function skills

Prerequisites:
  • Must be able to use spelling strategies to spell multisyllabic words that are legible
  • Must be able to independently write several simple sentences

    • Stephanie Johnson

      Lower School 4th-Grade Teacher, Director of the Reading & Writing Intensive Summer Programs

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Currey Ingram Academy is an exemplary JK-12 day and boarding school that empowers students with learning differences to achieve their fullest potential. Since 2002, the school has been located on an 83-acre campus in Brentwood, Tennessee, just miles from Nashville and Franklin. Families from 33 states and eight countries cite the school as their primary reason for moving to Middle Tennessee.

Currey Ingram Academy is accredited by the Southern Association of Independent Schools (SAIS) and AdvancEd/Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI).