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It's All about the Books: How to Create Bookrooms and Classroom Libraries That Inspire Readers
It's All about the Books: How to Create Bookrooms and Classroom Libraries That Inspire Readers | Tammy Mulligan, Clare Landrigan
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The term "lifelong reader" is more than a slogan or jargon in a mission statement. Lifelong readers need passion, agency, and a sense of inquiry in their reading lives. They also need books. In It's All About the Books, Tammy Mulligan and Clare Landrigan share the systems they have developed over the last 15 years to create classroom libraries and book rooms that support both student choice and instructional goals. Getting started with designing and provisioning classroom libraries and bookrooms to support lifelong readers involves collaboration, planning, and some elbow grease! It's All About the Books is a practical yet detailed guide to creating a system where classroom libraries and bookrooms work seamlessly together to make it easy for teachers to find books to engage and scaffold all students in a school community. Each chapter includes photos, resources, book lists, and a step-by-step outline of the process so you can get started right away. From design, to inventory, to organizing, purchasing, and using these books in the classroom-they demonstrate how to make the most of what you have, and how to get what need on a budget. Every child deserves the opportunity to become a lifelong reader. It's All About the Books will help you transform how you organize books across the entire school to make each teacher's book supply seem endless in the eyes of a reader. Teachers must have easy access to what they need, when they need it, because in the life of a reader the right book at the right time makes all the difference. - Tammy and Clare want this book to impact the lives of teachers and students directly so they are donating all author royalties it generates to the Book Love Foundation. Book Love is a not-for-profit organization founded by Penny Kittle with one goal: to put books in the hands of teenagers. Our book will now expand that goal and put books into the hands of elementary and middle grade students as well. Thank you, Penny, for allowing us to bring the heart of this book to life through your hard work and vision. -Tammy and Clare
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Sweettartlaura
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What do you do when you‘re running a family reading challenge for the year, and the quarantine kids are glued to their screens?
You read the rest of the number they pledged to make up the difference 🤷🏻‍♀️
Unless... 🤔
Unless when they call you to play a game online you show them all the books you have to read cos they‘re not, and tell them if they read books you can take some off your stack, and thus have more time to play 😏
1 down...90 to go!

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Flingogal
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Books and Lego #shelfie

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WanderingBookaneer
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Suet624 hahaha 5y
ju.ca.no Oh well, more books it is then😁 5y
TheWordJar This is my favorite one yet! #morebooks #always 5y
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BookNotes 🥰😃👏🏻 5y
Soubhiville Accurate! 5y
marleed Bwahaha! 5y
Come-read-with-me 🤣🙌🏻 5y
Amandajoy I showed this to my husband. He wasn‘t nearly as thrilled with the prediction as I was! 5y
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CoffeeNBooks
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I thought you all would appreciate the book display I made for my classroom. I'm going to switch out the book covers periodically so I can feature different books throughout the school year. 📚 #ya #librarylove #booklove #englishteacher #teachersoflitsy

JoScho Looks great Harper ❤️ 6y
Ashley85 Love it! 6y
Lovesbooks87 Love it! 💜💜💜 6y
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dariazeoli Love it! 6y
Aims42 That‘s very creative, I love it! 6y
Leftcoastzen Wonderful! 6y
Alfoster Cute!👏👏👏👏 6y
ravenlee I wonder if you could set up an over-the-door shoe organizer like this, with books to borrow in the pockets... 6y
shellleigh33 ❤️❤️❤️ it!!! 6y
RebelReader What a fabulous idea! 💗💗💗 6y
zzz ❤❤❤ this! 6y
CareBear This looks amazing! 6y
Joy0201 Stealing!!!! 6y
Purrfectpages So cute! 6y
mabell Fun!! 6y
tracey38 Love this! 6y
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Poetryfreak38
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Enjoyed this book! But it‘s really geared towards elementary school. I‘m looking for ideas from middle school and high school teachers!! How do you organize your classroom library! #whatdoesyourclassroomlibrarylooklike #teacherlife #classroomlibrary #weneeddiversebooks

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youngreadrshelf
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So. With the final stage of the move finally upon us (it‘s only been 1 1/2 year separation for my husband and I), my son and I will drive from Louisiana to Virginia next week. My plan is to hit Lemuria in Jackson, MS, along the way. Because bookstores make good stops on road trips. Any other suggestions?

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GlassAsDiamonds
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Just for @CarolynM (I did NOT leave with just one book this time...😂😂😂).

Cinfhen Where have you been!!!?! 6y
CarolynM Thank you. Hopefully I'll get visit it next week. 6y
GlassAsDiamonds @Cinfhen on the MOST HORRIBLE trip home we‘ve ever had... (so bad I‘m extremely extremely glad to be back in Mumbai even though it‘s “feels like 45.5 and I hate the heat). How are you? 6y
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GlassAsDiamonds @CarolynM wave at the Loebs for me!! 😊😊😊😊 6y
Cinfhen Wow!! Never thought I‘d hear you say “extremely extremely glad to be back in Mumbai” 😂😂flying can be soooo bloody awful!!! Hope you enjoyed time with the family!! I was worried about you 🧡it‘s been HOT here too but not 45!!! That‘s killer heat!!!! 6y
GlassAsDiamonds @Cinfhen I know, right?!? 😱😂🤦🏻‍♀️! Yes and no: PILs beloved dog had to be put down (didn‘t recover from sedation for tests that revealed spinal tumors), brother‘s beloved rescue Galah passed away while we were staying, heart troubles in 94yr old, chest and digestive system infection in Mr GaD (who is a MORON and swam in the upper Ganges at a work offsite just before we left) and issues with the place we boarded the kitties amongst others!😱💔 6y
GlassAsDiamonds @Cinfhen oh, and Singapore Airlines oversold our first flight & only stuffed us into the very back of economy in crew seats when I threw a fit & loudly threatened legal action in the airport (it was the first leg of close to 34hrs in transit 😡) & we missed catching virtually everyone we know to be with the heartbroken or sick family members while WhatApp yelling at the kennels for doing stupid cat-life risking things. Never again, please! 6y
rather_be_reading 😍😍 6y
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DebbieGrillo
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Most of these books will go into my high school classroom library. #bookhaul I've been having a virtual yardssle in Facebook marketplace and have decided that the money I make will go towards funding my classroom library. I can't wait to get it set up in the fall. I have so many new books to add. Do you see anything here that you loved?

FeastOfFiction That‘s a fantastic start!! 6y
TK-421 Kelley Armstrong 😍 6y
DebbieGrillo @FeastOfFiction It's a fantastic addition. 6y
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sparrowssavvy Amazing haul! 6y
tammysue So many wonderful books! 😍 6y
eeclayton 11/22/63 was quite good. And I love everything by Nick Hornby 6y
FeastOfFiction @DebbieGrillo There‘s not much else that is as exciting as adding to my classroom library also! 6y
MicheleinPhilly WOW! That is an AMAZING haul. I loved 11/22/63 and One Day. 6y
irksit I loved “The Great Alone”! And “Caroline” was ok, but it was a little boring, for me anyway. 6y
Birdsong28 One Day is amazing!!!! 📚📖 6y
Slajaunie 11/22/63! 6y
LittlePixels Wow, so many great books! 😍 6y
laurenlovesliterature The Girl on the Train! 6y
Ingridelaine82 Catch 22 and the Pillars of the Earth ❤️ 6y
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