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Promote summer reading by sharing book recommendations! Get our list of ways to share. 

Janet Scott gives us a tour of her classroom library.

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Use this tool to stay organized and on track with everything you need to teach.

Download our new I PICK poster and hang it up in your room and library! 

An organized, efficient, inviting classroom library is a beautiful thing. 

In this video a number generator is used with students who are working to develop basic fact power. You may already have this tool in your cupboard.

This series of five videos shows how Gail meets with a fourth grade class new to writer's notebooks.

If your students seem stuck on a series or genre, don't worry.

Here is a systematic way to set up or reconstruct your room. This system really works for us, and we think it will help you as well.

Simple choices can make our classrooms calm, inviting places to learn. 

These eight ideas will help keep interest high until the last bell of the school year rings.

Using the power of sound. 

Principal, Jon Konen, shares five ways to allocate more money for classrooms implementing Daily 5.

This wide variety of resources and supports will help ensure that each summer is filled with reading for every child. 

Try this fun way to explore how authors begin a story and inspire the writers in your room to vary their own work. 

Julie Ahrendson shares how personalized writing notebooks inspire her students to write.

Lori shares funny books that will keep kids laughing from preschool through middle school. 

It is important to understand the benefits and drawbacks of each as we purposefully plan and craft the questions we will use in our lessons.

This simple idea is a powerful way to keep our gifted students engaged mentally and socially. 

Want your classroom library to be the heart of your room? These six steps will help. 

From the deepest ocean to a planet in our solar system, we are sure there is a true story here that will ignite the hearts and minds of your students.

Discover 5 ways to show that you truly value reading and books. 

Check out this fun technique to help children find an interesting book!

Kristin shares 4 ideas on what we can do when students hit a wall of frustration.