Category: Book Access

  • #5: Teach Kids How to Choose Books

    #5: Teach Kids How to Choose Books

    This is the fifth post in the Building a Reading Community blog series to kick off the 2022-23 school year. All posts in the series can be found here. I just spent the first two days of school with my new group of 5th graders. We are already on our way to growing into a community of readers.…

  • #2: Make Use of Browsing Boxes From the Start

    #2: Make Use of Browsing Boxes From the Start

    This is the second post in the Building a Reading Community blog series to kick off the 2022-23 school year. All posts in the series can be found here. Choice and access to a classroom library full of books is an incredibly joyous, central part of thriving classroom reading community. Getting books into students’ hands…

  • Start of Year Blog Series: 8 Tips for Building a Reading Community

    Start of Year Blog Series: 8 Tips for Building a Reading Community

    Like many of you, I will be heading back to my classroom soon. While still relishing in the final days of summer relaxation (and let’s be honest, recovery from the past two and a half tumultuous school years), I’m beginning to think about the steps I’ll take starting on the first day of school to…

  • Getting Books in Their Hands from a Distance: It Takes a Vision & a Village

    This past Friday, teachers, aides, my principal, our secretary, our custodians, a crew of parents, and community members came together to make sure our close to 400 distance learning students in kindergarten through fifth grade have access to physical books to read for the next few weeks. In 5th grade, our students even chose their…