Class Library

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 20

Thank you to all who have donated to this project! With your generosity, my class library has grown significantly and is more accessible to my students, as I have been able to add a wider variety of lower-level higher-interest books that were not available to them otherwise (they have already burned through the few level-appropriate books in my class library and the media center, due to limited availability of low-level/high-interest books and the fact that they are such avid readers!).

My students have eagerly begun sampling the first set of books brought into the classroom that I was able to purchase at a Scholastic Warehouse sale over the winter break (this sale was able to help me maximize a portion of the grant with highly-discounted books that I was able to select), and we are currently awaiting a shipment of books from an order placed through Scholastic online using the remaining funds, which includes many more books the students expressed interest in that were not available at the warehouse sale (we worked together to create a list of level-appropriate books, both fiction and non-fiction, that they would like to see added to our library, which led to a great lesson on how to search for the items they wanted, access descriptions (synopses) to determine interest, and make decisions based on pricing in order to get the most for the money).

As you can see in the pictures, the students have already completed a "book sampling" where they were able to preview the books and rank them by interest level, to give them a personal guideline for which books they may want to read first, and have made their selections for "first read" to prepare to take their AR tests and meet their goals for the remainder of the year. They can hardly keep their hands off the books, and are constantly asking for time to read! It was difficult for them to even wait for me to label the books with the AR test codes on the first day, they were so eager to begin reading!

Again, THANK YOU, from all of us, for what you have done for my students. :-)