This report describes the organizational structure, a literacy approach called the 6Rs, and theme-related components that occurred over three summers at CampUs. Thousands of inner-city children from housing development sites located in New York City's five boroughs were bused to a metropolitan university. During 10-day cycles, children read trade books related to themes, used concept maps to help reason through and retell/reconstruct the readings, wrote and revised papers, and did multi-media computer projects related to the themes. Informal evaluations of children's writings revealed both improvements in writing and awareness of the CampUs theme messages.