Shirley Equipado (right), lecturer of early childhood education at the Philippine Normal University, believes in the power of stories to stir children's imagination

Summer Reading Camp participants in Pasolo Elementary School get ready for a storytelling session as City Mayor REX Gatchalian and Councilor Lorie Natividad Borja look on, May 4, 2015.

At the Summer Reading Camp, learning to read becomes fun with the range of activities -- from storytelling to playacting, from arts and crafts to song and dance -- do in class. Experts say children learn better when all of their senses are engaged.