School Libraries
Bookshelves and study carrels? Digital learning commons? Or something in between? Discover how educators are using and reimagining their school libraries.
How School Librarians Can Support ELLs
Here are eight ways librarians can nurture English language learners鈥 literacy skills in both their home language and English.291Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Making the Library a More Welcoming Space
By offering flexible areas and creative activities that give students a chance to relax and connect, the library can become a haven for belonging鈥攁nd the heart of a school.Reigniting the Joy of Reading With Book Tastings
Offering students a chance to sample new genres and styles of books in the school library can help them break out of a reading rut.Building a 21st-Century Learning Space
A community raised $6 million to construct an innovative 30,000-square-foot facility complete with makerspaces and learning labs.16.1kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.A School-Wide Focus on Choice Reading
When the staff at an elementary school made fostering a love of reading a priority, they used these strategies to meet their goal.3.6kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.10 Ways to Cultivate a Love of Reading in Students
Suggestions for how聽teachers聽in all subjects can guide students to learn to love reading, and how parents and administrators can help.9.8kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Schoolwide Strategies for Promoting a Love of Reading
A literacy consultant explains how schools can encourage all students to share the joy of reading.3.8kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.How Audiobooks Help Emerging Readers and Inspire a Love of Books
Audiobooks allow students to enjoy books above their reading level, introducing them to engaging stories that will hook them for life.842Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.A Simple Way to Encourage Students to Read More Broadly
When students experiment with ways of classifying books beyond reading levels, they may feel liberated from strict ideas about what they should be reading.2kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Collaborating With Your School Librarian
Ten ways to work with your highly trained colleagues in the library to enhance literacy instruction.3.3kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.21st-Century Libraries: The Learning Commons
Libraries become a different kind of learning destination when schools reimagine them as open, transparent spaces that invite student communication and collaboration.5kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Setting Up Libraries to Be the Best Space in School
We took a peek inside school libraries across America to see how librarians are reframing the space to support students鈥 social, emotional, and creative growth鈥攚hile still prioritizing excellent reads.A Fun Way to Engage Students鈥 Minds and Bodies With Books
StoryWalks encourage collaboration and reflection, and transform the often sedentary act of reading into a dynamic, interactive activity.1.1kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Grace Lin on Giving Young Readers a 鈥楽ense of Home鈥
The award-winning children鈥檚 book author on stories that are like friends you can turn to鈥攁nd the importance of featuring characters who 鈥渟hare a common thread of humanity.鈥澛915Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Expanding Your School鈥檚 Nonfiction Collection
Elementary through high school students are eager for nonfiction. Here鈥檚 how to find the books they鈥檒l want to read.437Your content has been saved!
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