Camp Pageturner: Summer Reading & Writing at the CLC

Camp Pageturner: Summer Reading & Writing at the CLC
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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

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Jun 23, 2025 - Jun 27, 2025
8:15AM - 4:30PM
Durham Campus
300.00 Camp Pageturner Fee
This session is for a Full Day of Camp Pageturner.
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Jun 30, 2025 - Jul 3, 2025
8:15AM - 4:30PM
Durham Campus
240.00 Pageturners Short Week Fee
This session is for a Full Day of Camp Pageturner.
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Jun 30, 2025 - Jul 3, 2025
8:15AM - 12:00PM
Durham Campus
120.00 Camp Pageturner Half Day Fee
This section is only available for students who are also enrolled in the afternoon session of KEEPERS.
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Jul 7, 2025 - Jul 11, 2025
8:15AM - 4:30PM
Durham Campus
300.00 Camp Pageturner Fee
This session is for a Full Day of Camp Pageturner.
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Jul 14, 2025 - Jul 18, 2025
8:15AM - 4:30PM
Durham Campus
300.00 Camp Pageturner Fee
This session is for a Full Day of Camp Pageturner.
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Jul 21, 2025 - Jul 25, 2025
8:15AM - 4:30PM
Durham Campus
300.00 Camp Pageturner Fee
This session is for a Full Day of Camp Pageturner.
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Jul 28, 2025 - Aug 1, 2025
8:15AM - 4:30PM
Durham Campus
300.00 Camp Pageturner Fee
This session is for a Full Day of Camp Pageturner.

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Session 1: Play on Words (Theme – Playwriting)

Do you love to dress up in costumes and act out stories? Join us for a week of play-writing, set design, costume-making, acting, and more!

Session 2 (Full Day): Whimsical Words (Theme - Reading & Writing)

During this short week, we bring it back to the basics: we read, we write, and we have a great time. 

Session 2 (Morning Only): Whimsical Words (Theme - Reading & Writing)

This option is only for children who participate in the Leitzel Center’s half day KEEPERS camp. Campers will spend the morning with the Camp Pageturner crew at the CLC and be walked to KEEPERS Camp at 12:00pm.

Session 3: YIP, YIP, Hooray! (Theme - Inventing)

Collaboration with the Leitzel Center! What will you invent? Staff from the Robert H. Rines Young Inventors' Program (YIP) will join us as we develop ideas, solve problems, build inventions, and present our projects! 

Session 4: GLOBE-al Nature Writers (Theme – Environment)

Collaboration with the Leitzel Center! Join us as we partner with GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment), an international program that promotes scientific literacy and builds connections between people passionate about the environment. We will explore areas like College woods as we conduct experiments, collect data, and share with a global community of environmental scientists and scientists-to-be.

Session 5: Write, Camera, Action (Theme – Film)

At Write, Camera, Action, we will spend the week making a movie. You will learn about writing a screenplay, producing a film, and more! On the last day of camp, we’ll have our own screening.

Session 6: Mathemagicians (Theme – Math & Magic)

Collaboration with the Leitzel Center! Dust off your top hat and magic wand - math and magic go hand-in-hand. Join us for fun open-ended math tasks, math-related magic, and creating our own magic show.

Click the '+' on the block on the right to enroll. If using a mobile device, the block may appear on the bottom of the page. Review the Online Registration Instructions before enrolling for the best outcome.

Family Accounts are recommended for enrolling multiple children from one family in any UNH Youth Program. If you already have an account in our system, you will be asked to log into either a Family or Student Account after adding the program to your shopping cart. Be sure to use the username and password for the type of account you wish to log into. We recommend attempting to log into the Student or Family account before enrollment opens as this will minimize difficulty and time while enrolling. Email youth.programs@unh.edu if you require assistance recovering your account information. Do not create a new account if you have one already.

If you don't have an account already, you can set up an account at any time, even before you begin the registration process. When you create a new account, the email address provided in the profile should be that of a parent/legal guardian, not the participating student. Review the Online Registration Instructions before creating a new account.

CampDoc: UNH has partnered with CampDoc to quicken the enrollment process. Enrollments and payments will still be made here through our current enrollment system, but no registration questions will be required at that time. Within a few days of enrolling, the email provided in the student or family account will receive an email prompting completion of the registration questions.

It is important that a parent/guardian responds to the CampDoc email and completes the registration questions promptly. Families who enrolled a child in a UNH Youth Program in Summer 2023 or after will likely already have a CampDoc account. Even if the student already has a CampDoc account, a parent/guardian should log into the student's account to review and complete any necessary questions for a specific program or year.

All registration questions must be 100% complete in CampDoc before a student can attend a youth program.

For more information, including the CampDoc Support Line, review our CampDoc page.

The UNH Community Literacy Center is located in Suite 109 of Morrill Hall, 62 College Rd., Durham, NH.

Additional information, including check in location and times are sent to participants by the program staff prior to the session start date.