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Hitting the Books at Camp Read-A-Lot

HUNTINGTON TOWNSHIP — Students at Northwest Area Primary School in Luzerne County are attending camp this week. It’s not your typical camp. The camp...
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HUNTINGTON TOWNSHIP -- Students at Northwest Area Primary School in Luzerne County are attending camp this week. It's not your typical camp.

The camp is indoor and all the necessities you would normally bring camping are inside the school's library.

"You read a lot of books in tents," one student said.

The school near Shickshinny is participating in Camp Read-A-Lot a way to get students to start picking up more books.

The tents and week-long program were made possible by a federal grant.

The event continues through the end of the week.

"We decided to try and reinvent a way to try and get kids away from technology and to try and just remember getting a book off a shelf and reading it," reading specialist Ember Hasay said.

These first grade students are still polishing up on their reading skills. Many were excited to leave the classroom to go camping.

"Some books are funny and some books are not. Some books I like and some books I don't like," student Riley Badman said.

With Camp Read-a-lot going on all week, teachers are hoping that kids take more of an interest in reading books.

The more than 300 students at the school will get the opportunity to attend camp four times during the week.

Hasay says the goal is to get students to shift their interest from the latest technology to books.

"They're already saying can I borrow that book later? Can you let me lend it? Would you lend it and let me take it home? Then when I tell them that they'll be back at camp tomorrow, they're all excited," Hasay said.

Camp Read-A-Lot at Northwest Area Primary School will continue through Friday.

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