The document discusses creating classroom libraries to promote reading. It emphasizes including multiple genres and formats, as well as 7-10 books per student. Free and low-cost print resources include donations, book swaps, sales and grants. Digital options presented include ebooks, audiobooks, and nonfiction articles from various free sources. Selection resources can help teachers choose appropriate books, while organization tools maintain and manage the growing collection. The goal is to provide engaging reading materials that encourage students to read more.

1. Creating
Classroom
Libraries
Presented by
Angel Somers
Media Specialist/West Long Branch
Schools

2. Goals for the Day
• Explore the importance of developing a classroom library
• Print resources
• Digital resources
• Audio resources
• Selection resources
• Organizing and managing the library
• Other teacher tools

3. Why Build a
Classroom
Library?

4. In classrooms with well developed
libraries
• Students interact more with books
• They demonstrate more positive attitude toward books.
• They spend more time reading!

5. Classroom libraries should include
• Multiple genres
• Multiple formats
• Different levels
• 7-10 books per
student
• Quality materials

6. Print
Resources

7. Free or Almost Free Sources
• Requests
– First Book
– Back to School
– Birthday program
– Friends and Family
– ARC’s
• Book Swaps
– In house
– Paperbackswap
– Title Trader
– Book Mooch
– Classroom2Classroom

8. Money Saving Options
• Book Sale Finder
• Thrift Books
• Book Outlet
• ebay Classroom Book Sets
• Books By The Foot
• First Book Marketplace
• Dover Publications
• BMI Educational Services
• Scholastic Warehouse sales

9. Finding Funds

10. Be Creative!
• Pennies for Paperbacks
• Donors Choose
• Grants
• Get Ed Funding
• Scholastic
• Target
• Grant Wranglers
• Dollar General
• Department of Education
• Edutopia
• Private Sources ( Local Foundations, NJAET)

11. Digital
Resources

12. eBooks and Other Digital Reading
Materials

13. Monmouth County
Library

14. Open Library

15. Project Gutenberg

16. Planet eBook

17. Google Play Books
For Android Devices

18. Free Read Feed

19. 2020ok

20. Aaron Shephard

21. Aesop’s Fables

22. American Literature for Young
Readers

23. Book Jar Books For Young
Adults

24. Books Should Be
Free

25. Read Print

26. Goodreads

27. Open Culture

28. Surprising Finds
• Tumblebooks
• Amazon Free Books
• Brain Hive
• BookShare

29. Tumblebook Cloud

30. Amazon Free
eBooks

31. Brain Hive

32. Book Share

33. Younger Students
• Raz Kids
• International
Children’s Digital
Library

34. Raz Kids

35. International Children’s Digital
Library

36. Nonfiction materials
• Newsela
• The Free Library
• Nonfiction
Articles

37. NEWSELA

38. The Free Library

39. School Site for Nonfiction Articles

40. eBook Finders
• Book Bub
• eReader news

41. Book Bub

42. Ereader News

43. Audio
Resources

44. Reasons to Use Audio
Books
• Students learn new vocabulary and hear how each word is
pronounced.
• Allows for students to read in places and at times that they normally
wouldn’t have access to print materials.
• It can be helpful for some reading and learning disabilities.
• Helps readers know more about the characters when they hear the
expression in the characters’ voices.
• Great for books that are multicultural or period pieces.
• Good to use with students who are below level.
• Listening is part of the Common Core Standards.

45. Librivox

46. N.H. Public Radio Caldecott Books

47. YouTube: Audio Books

48. SYNC

49. Tumblebooks Cloud

50. Alfred Hitchcock Podcasts

51. Lit 2 Go

52. Ambling Books

53. Archive.org

54. Audio Books for Free

55. Open Culture

56. Kids Learn Out Loud

57. For Younger Students

58. Selection
Resources

60. Sites to assist you with book
selections.
• Book award lists such as the
ALA book awards.
• Professional organization lists
for content area trade books.
• Book vendor sites
• Databases
• Book trailers
• What should I read next?
• Reading specialists
recommendations
• Author sites

61. Organizing and
Managing the
Classroom
Library

62. Now that
you’ve
got
books
what do
you do
with
them?

63. Maintain a List of Your Collection
• Shelfari

64. • Goodreads • Librarythin
g

65. Apps to Help You Organize
• Book Source
• Book
Retriever
• Level it Books

66. Other Tools

67. • Scour Pinterest for
ideas
• Consider RSS Feeds
and online materials
such as blogs, and
curation sites
• Visit Commercial
reading programs
(Reading Rockets,
Read Works,
Readwritethink)

71. Contact
Information
Angel Somers
Media Specialist for the
West Long Branch Public Schools
e-mail - asomers@wlbschools.com
Livebinder Link
http://tinyurl.com/m8ojkvx