My FREADom Library Gets a Reality Check
My FREADOM classroom lending library is back in action! Teenagers Sam and Maddie and a very hard-working sixth grader from last year, Maggie, put in a full day's work to help me set up the entire book center anew. Thank you, ladies!
This year, I removed a gigunda box of books to make room for new titles�more nonfiction (for Common Core informational reading), the latest award winners, and favorites from the giant stack I've been reading all summer.
Marrying Books to Make Them Multiply
I played a lot more matchmaker this year�pairing nonfiction and historic fiction titles on the same topic. Once kids are mouth-agape about a subject, I plan to keep producing variations and fresh takes for them to gobble up.
A timely nonfiction book, in the face of this summer's severe drought, is Jerry Stanley's photo-documentary Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp, which I wed to the historical fiction book Out of The Dust, by Karen Hesse. Hesse's title was #7 in popularity out of all the titles my students read and ranked last year.
This year, I removed a gigunda box of books to make room for new titles�more nonfiction (for Common Core informational reading), the latest award winners, and favorites from the giant stack I've been reading all summer.
Marrying Books to Make Them Multiply
I played a lot more matchmaker this year�pairing nonfiction and historic fiction titles on the same topic. Once kids are mouth-agape about a subject, I plan to keep producing variations and fresh takes for them to gobble up.
A timely nonfiction book, in the face of this summer's severe drought, is Jerry Stanley's photo-documentary Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp, which I wed to the historical fiction book Out of The Dust, by Karen Hesse. Hesse's title was #7 in popularity out of all the titles my students read and ranked last year.
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