🌱 How DCIU’s Marple literacy camp is fighting the summer learning slide
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- How DCIU’s Marple literacy camp is fighting the summer learning slide
Also on today's calendar: Weekend Lobster Nights! Every Fri. & Sat. and 1 more event.
Today's riddle: If you feed me I will grow and if you give me water I will die. What am I? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Thursday: A p.m. shower in places, with a high of 78 and low of 65 degrees.
- Friday: Mostly sunny and warmer, temps: high: 85, low: 65.
- Saturday: Periods of sun, with a high of 86 and low of 68 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
📰 News we're reading
• DCIU Literacy Camp concludes two-week run (delcotimes.com) — Families in Marple should know that DCIU just wrapped up its two-week Summer Literacy Camp at the Marple Education Center, aimed at helping below-grade-level readers catch up before fall. Students worked in small groups with reading interventionists on decoding, writing, fluency, and language skills, blending structured lessons with games and movement to combat the usual summer learning slide. 
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